[ug-bosug] [advocacy-discuss] Java is everywhere !

[Brandorr]

Sheer brilliance I say. (I really hate it, but it is awesome).

I guess I'd best explain. Guess what Wall Street and all the the me-to
techie media are going to be talking about for months?

Yep. Sun.

Add this to the whole press snufulus with Indiana, GPL3/CDDL flame
wars, Java going GPL and all the Torvolds/Shartz ribaldry, (I know,
wrong word, but I say it fits.) and we are starting to see, Sun
constantly in the news.

Personally though I think it is a bit silly as I think it's pretty
clear that the internet is embracing Dynamic Scripting languages as
the languages of the future. (Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl)

-Brian

P.S. - Next year the ticker should be changed back to get even more
free press. (Actually I think these things have costs associated with
them, so it might actually turn out to be costly advertizing, in which
case, I might back off from my initial assessment of brilliant and
just say pretty smart).

On 8/25/07, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Below is a mail that I posted to opensolaris-discuss.
> Probably it is more relevant at advocacy-discuss & the user group.
>
> ~Shiv
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com>
> Date: Aug 26, 2007 8:35 AM
> Subject: Java is everywhere !
> To: opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org
>
> Anyone read Jonathan's recent blog?
> http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/java_is_everywhere
>
> I believed putting *that* java word in any & every place was thing of the past.
>
> I remember well the problems we(as a customer) had because of the
> cluster software being hidden within the Java Availability Suite
> (Oxymoron?). Now the investors will have tough time searching for
> sun's stock.
> Not all stake holders are keen to play treasure hunt ! Or is it that
> fool's day is celebrated on a different date.
>
> The blog comments say it all...The dislike about the move is *huge*.
>
> All the branding that has happened since opening up will be undone
> with one masterful stroke.
>
> When the user group meeting happens this saturday, I will ask for a
> 1minute silence to mourn the sad day.
>
> ~Shiv
>
> ps: Oh, and it is not about just the ticker change. Going through the
> blog makes it quite obvious how branding is likely to happen.
> It is a matter of time before which it percolates into all parts of
> opensolaris.org
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