The phrase "too little, too late" springs to mind. Also the phrases "crippling hubris", "halfhearted sop", "internecine bloodletting" ( http://www.infoworld.com

The phrase "too little, too late" springs to mind. Also the phrases "crippling hubris", "halfhearted sop", "internecine bloodletting" ( http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/26/HNflair_1.html http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/26/HNflair_1.html ) and "hat-trick" ( http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/javaorigin.html http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/javaorigin.html , http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/01/23/the-sun-also-sets/ http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/01/23/the-sun-also-sets/ ). Now it's quite likely those horrible inklings are wrong. Maybe JavaFX is a clever spoiler move to take significant momentum out of Silverlight and Flex at minimal expense to Sun; maybe it's a stalling manoeuvre while Project Flair condenses. But then again ... oh man, yeah, Sun.