I don't know, but Java definitely succeeded at least in part because of the programming environment at the time. I didn't live through the time that Java saw i

I don't know, but Java definitely succeeded at least in part because of the programming environment at the time. I didn't live through the time that Java saw it's rise in use on the enterprise, but what I've been told by others that was a big deal at the time were two things combined that made it attractive, and it being one of the few languages that was very accessible that had these two characteristics. These were: * Garbage Collected language. * Being able to write code in Windows (which is what most enterprise developers used then and even now), and deploy on Linux/other OS reliably. Again, this is just what I've heard from others that were there, so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Today, there are other options, so maybe it wouldn't be as big a sellilng point. But to me at least, it is still one of the languages that allows this the easiest by far.