Linux threatens Sun's Solaris and every other proprietary UNIX
operating system. NT differentiates itself from UNIX, therefore, the
people who buy it don't want UNIX.
As long as Sun controls Java it will fail. Lets face it, they have
not proven themselves to be able to deliver software any better than
Microsoft. Java has been constantly changing, continously buggy (not
even beta quality), and progress has been slow.
Java is a money making racket for university computers science
graduates. Its classic UNIX fundamentalism at its worst. Java is
only mildly less complex than C++. We don't need mass quantities of
unskilled low level system programmers. We need higher level domain
specific languages and end user tools which allow the experts of their
field to build sophisticated applications. The Java architecture is
tightly bound to the Java language. Its not language neutral. The
language is too hard.
Its obvious Java has no chance to succeed when you listen to James
Gosling talk. In PCMag, he stated that Java would be the great
equalizer of operating systems. At this years JavaOne, he made the
remark that he uses vi editor and the crowd cheered crazily. Ask
yourself, what kind of crowd would love vi?
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azstarnet.com
"Java is not a step forward in computer science at all. Almost
every feature in Java is ancient history in computer science, and
those few that are not ancient history are fairly obvious extensions
to common ideas (sometimes bad ones). Java may arguably be a step
forward in commercial programming practice, since it has introduced
important concepts and tools to a lot of practicing but uneducated
programmers who might otherwise never have seen them. I'm referring
here to dynamic typing, automatic storage management, multi-threading
and similar features."
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Linux isn't innovation either. Its a copycat of the Netscape browser
strategy (applied to operating systems) with the goal of winning big
marketshare on the open hardware platform Intel (and possibly alpha)
thereby solving the chronic UNIX fragmentation problem caused by
alternative proprietary hardware vendors like Sun, Silicon Graphics,
IBM, etc. |
