Comment Re:Thoughts about Java (Score 1) 194
The Zaar of *the* language
At the risk of being pedantic, that's czar or tsar, depending on your transliteration of the Russian language...which would not be an important point if we were not speaking of languages here.
Yes, Sun wanted to be in control. Yes, Sun wanted to own a world standard, the next C. How does that differ from Microsoft's grip on the world vis-a-vis having a 90% market share on Joe Sixpack's desktop O/S? In Sun and Java, at least the standard would be under good management...
Ownership of a "world standard" in and of itself is meaningless anyway -- after all, SCO owns the rights to SVR4, but who in his right mind would use SCO Unix in any mission-critical application (my former employer notwithstanding) ??
"Bring your Penguin into the Sun" -- Linux on SPARC forever
At the risk of being pedantic, that's czar or tsar, depending on your transliteration of the Russian language...which would not be an important point if we were not speaking of languages here.
Yes, Sun wanted to be in control. Yes, Sun wanted to own a world standard, the next C. How does that differ from Microsoft's grip on the world vis-a-vis having a 90% market share on Joe Sixpack's desktop O/S? In Sun and Java, at least the standard would be under good management...
Ownership of a "world standard" in and of itself is meaningless anyway -- after all, SCO owns the rights to SVR4, but who in his right mind would use SCO Unix in any mission-critical application (my former employer notwithstanding) ??
"Bring your Penguin into the Sun" -- Linux on SPARC forever
