I have written a good deal of Java as a professional Java developer for over 10 years. The core truth the article gets right is that Java is meant to be a langu

I have written a good deal of Java as a professional Java developer for over 10 years. The core truth the article gets right is that Java is meant to be a language Enterprise developers can use and be reasonably sure other people can pick it up and work with it. Java is a defensible choice in that you can hire people that know Java, easily buy Java training, and have a lot of tools for Enterprise Java development that you can get (OSS or commercial) that will help your Java developers get Enterprise apps created. Java, in many respects, is the COBOL replacement created in the 90s that will live on in the Enterprise for decades to come. Just as COBOL lives on.