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Java and Niagara

How can you have an entire discussion about Sun's future growth without even
mentioning Java and Niagara? This almost seems like a willful oversight.

Niagara is designed for the modern blade-based server cluster farms. It is
designed for energy efficiency - which makes Sun quite forward looking in my
book.

Java is entering an renaissance. Java 6 is fast, it is catching up with .Net on
Windows. Java is cross-platform and that is useful to me since I'm writing apps at
work on Windows, at home on a Mac and then deploying the apps on Linux servers.
In this world, OpenSolaris does look interesting. The open source tools like
hibernate, Spring, ACEGI, groovy, etc. are resulting in a more dynamic
programming environment than the endless XML configuration and bean coding of
earlier Java development. Netbeans is making programming Java more productive.
The synergy of Rails and JRuby is resulting in a RAD way to develop web
applications that run on Java App Servers. Open source matters to developers and
Sun truly understands that.

Posted by: shis-ka-bob   Posted on: 01/25/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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