Re: The Revenge of the Geeks

From: Arne Vajhøj <arne_at_vajhoej.dk>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:35:36 -0500
Message-ID: <510154ce$0$289$14726298_at_news.sunsite.dk>

On 1/24/2013 7:15 AM, cipher wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:20:33 -0500, Arne Vajhøj Inscribed upon the Golden
> Tablets of Usenet thusly:
>
>> On 1/23/2013 8:10 PM, cipher wrote:
>>> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:01:01 -0500, Arne Vajhøj Inscribed upon the
>>> Golden Tablets of Usenet thusly:
>>>
>>>> On 1/23/2013 7:51 PM, cipher wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:26:47 -0500, Arne Vajhøj Inscribed upon the
>>>>> Golden Tablets of Usenet thusly:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 1/22/2013 7:07 PM, cipher wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:54:53 -0800, joel garry Inscribed upon the
>>>>>>> Golden
>>>>>>>> We know how Oracle wound up with java. Sun fucked up, Larry
>>>>>>>> swooped in and got loads of intellectual property and engineering
>>>>>>>> expertise for pennies on the dollar. It's the American way!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Java is dying on the home desktop. Maybe other places as well...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Depend on your definition of dying.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> According to statowl those with Java installed has dropped from 81%
>>>>>> to 66%.
>>>>>
>>>>> 81% to 61% sure don't sound healthy...
>>>>>
>>>>> Java is dying. Period.
>>>>
>>>> http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-01-18/
>>>>
>>>>
>>> <http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-05-08/>
>>
>> We may be a bit old fashioned in the Java group.
>>
>> Facts is still considered a positive.
>
> I appreciate your not jumping on my error, 66% not 61% is what I should
> have posted...

I did but I am just a bit subtle.

> When Homeland Security/CERT start posting recommendations and
> instructions for removing Java you know your product is in trouble.

Not really.

The Java economy is something like 0.1% applets, 0.9% desktop apps and 99% server side apps.

So if Java on desktop dropped to 0% in 10 minutes, then almost nobody in the Java world would even notice it.

Arne Received on Thu Jan 24 2013 - 16:35:36 CET