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Exodus

stefano — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:54:22 +0000

I am reading that all the big thinking heads of Sun are now leaving Oracle. I have two kind of reactions facing this news:

to describe my first reaction, I take a quote from the movie Ghostbusters:
“They gave us money and facilities, we didn’t have to produce anything! You’ve never been out of college! You don’t know what it’s like out there!”

to describe the second, I refer to the image of rats leaving the sinking ship…

I have still many people I know who are working for Sun. And I think that it is actually so easy for someone to engage lives of others.

Where are all the blog posts from Jonathan Schwartz?

Where are the lessons that Scott Mcnealy was teaching to his troops for so many years?

Java on the desktop is already here!

stefano — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:25:09 +0000

I have been surprised when I read this article: James Gosling (Sun) : « Java sur le poste client n’est pas à la hauteur aujourd’hui ». It is in French, so I translate the title here:

James Gosling (Sun) : « Java is not ready today for the desktop »
Strange, isn’t it ? The “father of Java” who, 15 years after, makes such a big statement!Well, the reality is different, as we all know.
Eclipse is there and it is there since sometime now. Eclipse is no more only an “open development platform”, but has become ‘a platform for building and deploying rich client applications”: it is called Eclipse RCP. Many people are developing rich Java applications for the desktop (and for the mobile market also) based on Eclipse RCP:

Open Source applications, the most popular of which is probably the Azureus BitTorrent client
Commercial applications also, of course !

And, not least, IBM is building the new generation of its products based on Eclipse RCP!

The Universal Managed Client for SOA, called Lotus Expeditor. A platform for building enterprise applications and enterprise mashups that bring the power of SOA towards the desktop and devices

The new Lotus Notes 8 client, which brings the possibility of building Composite Applications centered around the collaboration tools

Lotus Sametime, which provides a new frontier for Unified Collaboration and Communication

Sun may not be ready. But the world is not waiting in order to make Java evolving! And Java is bigger than a trade symbol.

BEA wants more money. And Sun ?

stefano — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:07:06 +0000

Few years ago, when I left Sun, I thought that the medium term scenario would involve some “fusion” between Oracle (Applications + database), BEA (middleware) and Sun (hardware).
In this way, the new entity would be able to compete against IBM and against MSFT (well MSFT+Dell or MSFT+HP, according to the situations).

I am reading these days that BEA just refused a friendly buyout offer from Oracle because the proposed price was seen as undervaluating BEA (I have issues understanding which evidence would support this statement… but this is not the point)! So, BEA is asking Oracle to make a better economical offer. There is not opposition to Oracle’s initiative.

And this seems logical to me.
The scenario is simplifying.

So, would next step really be Sun ?

Trading Java ?

stefano — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:05:11 +0000

I could not believe it when I read Jonathan Schwartz‘s (Sun CEO and President) recent post about changing the trade name for Sun Microsystems from SUNW to JAVA.
I hear that most of the comments are hostile to this. Some of them loose even time in going in the semantic of associating the slowness of Java to a rapidly declining company.
There is some summary of the most interesting entries in Sam Ruby‘s blog.

What I think of this story it is that it is just another example of abusing of addiction (see my post on gBrowser here).

If Java is what Java proponents always say “an open technology”, how could it become the identifier of a private company?
This is a great mistake in my opinions. It will benefit the ones who oppose Java, such as Microsoft…
this move shows no respect for all the companies (and individuals) that built the success of Java.
Java did not become widely used for anything that Sun did. Sun’s Java products are trailing everywhere and their marketshare is far from being predominant.
The success of Java was built by the IBM and Oracle and BEA and Open Source….
Given this, I fear (or hope) that this move could lead to a diaspora on Java, where at this point everybody will feel free to abandon the Logo and to perfect (wow…) the platform according to its own customer needs.

So, it is very sad to see someone counting on the popularity and addiction on something … to steal the attention of the community and impose himself as the gatekeeper (or keymaster… both of them were no so nice characters in Ghostbusters, right?).

Having a pony-tail does not equate to have all the rights!