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In '95 I remember going to an excellent Smalltalk course. A year later that lecturer was working for IBM on Java. IBM '96 also bought and then shifted an excell
by heisenbit 10y ago
In '95 I remember going to an excellent Smalltalk course. A year later that lecturer was working for IBM on Java. IBM '96 also bought and then shifted an excellent Software Configuration Management System by OTI towards Java (aka. Eclipse). IBM contributed a huge part of Java networking code too.
Java seems to be leaving a gap for various technical reasons. Java also may be seen by some as having strategic challenges under the Oracle stewardship. Go, Swift, Node and others are currently trying to exploit it.
Java took off not the least due to IBM stepping into the SUN court. Now IBM steps into the Apple court...
- MyNameIsFred 10y agoThat's a good point, but do you think that things have a chance of playing out similarly this time around? I get the feeling that web tech was more of an open question at that point, so people would look to a group like IBM to set the standard. I'm not so sure that that's the case anymore (and I make my living building within the IBM ecosystem, so I wish it were so).