Not sure where the poster got their data, but HBO revenues are significantly higher than Netflix. Netflix 2014Q2 revenue was $838milion, HBO 2014Q2 revenue was $1.4billion. Netflix has more SUBSCRIBERS than HBO, but they make far less revenue, and are also far less profitable.

Netflix 2014Q2: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/NFLX/3548772358x0x769748/9b21df7f-743c-4f0f-94da-9f13e384a3d2/July2014EarningsLetter_7.21.14_final.pdf
HBO 2014Q2: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9MjQ1MzkzfENoaWxkSUQ9LTF8VHlwZT0z&t=1

This was modded "informative"??? This is clearly a troll! Apparently someone has never tried to move a web app from Tomcat onto Weblogic or JBoss or OC4J. Ever heard of ClassLoader issues? Log4j ring a bell??

Or if you want to leave this strictly as a Desktop Environment to Desktop Environment comparison, how about the fact that you could never write something like KDE on Java at all, because you'd fail the minute you had to interact at a low-level with hardware? Or if you want to narrow the debate even more to try and claim Java superiority, how about we just talk about all of those Java-based Office suites that are taking over the world? What, they take up too much RAM, run too slow, don't integrate well with the native GUI, and have odd rendering problems? OK, so how exactly is Java relevant to this discussion again?

And lastly, I want to thank Sun for giving us the ability to write easy to read code like this:

Yes, so much better than C++. After fifteen years, Java now has most of the problems of C++ and few of the benefits. Congratulations.