>Paul Graham's meaning of "is dead" is "has stopped producing exciting ideas" Not really, he came up with his prediction: "I have a hunch that it won't be a v

>Paul Graham's meaning of "is dead" is "has stopped producing exciting ideas" Not really, he came up with his prediction: "I have a hunch that it won't be a very successful language" Java not just took off like a rocket, but .NET/C# (which built on top of Java) has encountered even more success, so much that companies collectively pay billions a year for Windows Server 2003/IIS/SQL Server while Apache/Tomcat/Php/MySql/PostGres/Ruby are free. You can say Microsoft takes most of the profit in the web server and server OS market (like how people say Apple takes 80% of the profit in the phone market).