Sunset

p. Cringely has an interesting column about the dire straights that Sun Microsystems is in: bq. Even Java is becoming superfluous. Java is the Dan Marino of software. Just as the former Dolphins quarterback, Java affected the world so much that history cannot be written without its mention. But nonetheless, neither Java nor Dan ever won the big one. p. I wish Sun would stop suing Microsoft and instead use that money to encourage developers to produce killer Java apps. DVArchive , a Java Swing app, just released a new version. On message boards, end users were asking where to go to download the JRE. That's the kind of support Sun needs. Forcing MS to bundle Java with Windows is a waste of time if there are no Java apps that people want to run. It's all about the apps - if you build it, they will come. Posted by Dirtae at February 16, 2003 11:30 PM