Comments on: What Sun Should Do http://parand.com/say/index.php/2008/11/25/what-sun-should-do/ Parand Tony Darugar: A Cruel and Petty Dictator Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:10:42 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Gene http://parand.com/say/index.php/2008/11/25/what-sun-should-do/comment-page-1/#comment-198877 Gene Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:03:18 +0000 http://parand.com/say/?p=723#comment-198877 Agree with you that Solaris and Sun hardware are game losers. Sun needs to drop Solaris like a ton of brick, just like a certain other company should have dropped FreeBSD 5 years ago. Netbeans, Eclipse, meh! IntelliJ is the IDE of choice for serious developers! We vote with our wallets, and it speaks volume when developers are willing to PAY $500 of their own money for IntelliJ rather than be forced to use open source alternatives. Java is the most interesting possession Sun owns. You can say all you want about how Java has lost its luster, but it still is the most popular and scalable enterprise software language and platform, period. Sure we have occasional flings with RoR, Erlan, Python, etc... but Java is still the old love that we come home to. And to Tim's point, Sun MUST give up it's stewardship of Java and allow it to flourish in the open community once again. Agree with you that Solaris and Sun hardware are game losers. Sun needs to drop Solaris like a ton of brick, just like a certain other company should have dropped FreeBSD 5 years ago.

Netbeans, Eclipse, meh! IntelliJ is the IDE of choice for serious developers! We vote with our wallets, and it speaks volume when developers are willing to PAY $500 of their own money for IntelliJ rather than be forced to use open source alternatives.

Java is the most interesting possession Sun owns. You can say all you want about how Java has lost its luster, but it still is the most popular and scalable enterprise software language and platform, period. Sure we have occasional flings with RoR, Erlan, Python, etc… but Java is still the old love that we come home to. And to Tim’s point, Sun MUST give up it’s stewardship of Java and allow it to flourish in the open community once again.

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