Now that Java has a fully open sourced implementation in RedHat's IcedTea, Neil McAllister questions whether an open Java even matters: "Even as Java has stretched outward to embrace more concepts and technologies - adding APIs and language features as it goes - newer, more lightweight tools have appeared that do most of what Java aims to do. And they often do it better."
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RE: Does 10 years as a journalist matter?
by trenchsol on Fri 27th Jun 2008 14:05
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Nothing is more grating then reading a diahrretic commentary with no "proof in the pudding" to proclaim superior, more lightweight products.
Either this person know jack about the market for J2EE architects and senior developers of Java tops on the list or he's just a Linux zealot pandering to his constituency hoping the crap he throws on the display sticks to the masses.
Write some software of varying tools to match the specs requirements of at least a 3-tier client with regional call center needs to connect millions of clients.
Then talk.