Java got picked up by the enterprise software crowd. (Maybe blame Sun for that - the enterprise people were going to buy a lot of servers.) The enterprise sof

Java got picked up by the enterprise software crowd. (Maybe blame Sun for that - the enterprise people were going to buy a lot of servers.) The enterprise software culture is where you had "software analysts", which was a different job description from "programmer". That culture took over Java and made it what we now think of as "Java culture", but it wasn't really Java. It was really the enterprise software culture. That's my opinion, anyway.