Karanbir Singh - Thinkability

Java is the spawn of Satan. It's as simple as that.

Java + Solaris was more likely the launching point in the enterprise for Java. That Linux was lower cost and also POSIX compliant likely made it the migration platform of choice for Java.

I think its a matter of Java being in the right place at the right time.

Java Application servers are what really propelled Linux, I think. However, there's nothing about Java per se that makes those application servers useful.

What's useful is that you have an API to program for that you can run on a number of different servers and different platforms. But when you look at it, there's little that you do with Java that you can't do with C++.

It took years for Sun to acknowledge Java - For a long time Blackdown Java was used on Linux. Sun only brought out a official implementation after Linux had already reached critical mass.

Java has definitely won on the mobile devices.
I think it was 1994 when it came out.. now it would be a better time to push the idea: "compile once, run anywhere".

Anyway it's always been a PITA to implement some java features on a Linux production server, expecially when you have also to deploy some more recent technologies in the same enviroment.

My colleague runs a 7node grid thing with ScientificLinux 4.7 and the Jpackage thing and all those sparse dependencies with other 3rd party repo are always a maze !!!!

So I'm with the Paul guy above:

Java is the spawn of Satan. It's as simple as that.

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