I have always felt, despite the competition coming from .Net and the great strides made by the CLR, that Java’s future prospects as a [more or less] general purpose development platform were still pretty good because of its robust ecosystem. However, the acquisition by Oracle, I believe, spells the beginning of the end for this [...]
I wrote a blog article a few months back, Microsoft’s 3-front war, Part 1 where I was going to explain each of the 3 fronts Microsoft is competing on in a separate blog article and conclude with the recommendation in this article. But I’m going to skip all these and just jump straight more or [...]
URL at http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/big_00.html Since today’s browser environment is rapidly becoming the equivalent of an OS, the innovations in Chrome seem to be ideas whose time has come. One of the central ideas behind Chrome’s architecture is to assign a different process (not thread) to each tab and the strip explains why. The section on how [...]
This blog article by Dare Obasanjo purports to give an insider’s view of how Microsoft might be a more desirable workplace environment than Google, in contrast to all the media portrayals about how working at Google is like being in a playground. In my own blog essay here, I would like to offer the view [...]
After having read about the “Da Vinci Machine”, http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/31/davinci-machine_1.html http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/ it struck me that Sun/the Java people have finally seen the wisdom of supporting other languages (esp. dynamic ones) on the JVM and have decided to play catch up with the CLR. The closest CLR analog to the Da Vinci Machine would be .NET’s DLR [...]