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Heart of Darkness; the smell of victory.
If you attended Java One, you are aware of the "My how I love the smell of Java in the Morning" mantra from the last key note. This mantra is not accidental IMO.

Most US citizens have seen the film Good Morning Vietnam. This film has the line "My how I love the smell of Napalm in the Morning" It is followed by the line

"It smells like victory."

Lets go back to the book upon which the film and the mantra are based.

Heart of Darkness is one of those thin books that you read more than once because it has so much meaning. It features a young EU business man that goes abroad for his company and is given goals that can only be reached by means polite society will not tolerate. He stops politely trading for ivory and begins to steel it from others eventually killing those who try to stop the steeling and everyone who has knowledge of it - entire villages etc, that will not adopt his not polite ways. Because he meets the goals set for him, he expects to return to polite society (the EU) with a promotion. But his culture of corruption is well known by those working in the company.

Compare and contrast with today. EU companies (lets just say the German company SAP) come to America to mine the gold found here that we call Information Technology. Just as in Heart of Darkness, profit goals breed less polite business ways eventually leading to the corruption of companies like Microsoft and others and even the corruption of the Bush Administration.

Good Morning EU. My how we Americans love the smell of Java in the Morning. It smells like victory!

Frank L. Mighetto CCP
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Posted by: mighetto   Posted on: 05/13/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Excellent Article  mighetto | 05/11/07
Java kernel will help, too  super_J | 05/11/07
apparently you dint read the second page  code_Warrior | 05/11/07
Oh lighten Up; Good Morning EU  mighetto | 05/13/07
No  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/12/07
Titanic  mighetto | 05/13/07
Translation into plain English  Knorthern Knight | 05/12/07
Heart of Darkness; the smell of victory.  mighetto | 05/13/07
Apocalypse Now, not Good Morning Vietnam  daboochmeister | 05/13/07
Thank you  mighetto | 05/14/07
a lot of BS sprinkled in  code_Warrior | 05/11/07
You're BS  EpsDel | 05/12/07
A bit of history.  Anton Philidor | 05/12/07
Oath of Omerta  mighetto | 05/13/07
And is going to fail ... again  markbn | 05/12/07
Your comment fails  spatula6 | 05/12/07
RE: Your comment fails  markbn | 05/13/07
Re: Fail  davidsarmstrong | 05/12/07
The Desktop is Dead; with its death Java rises  mighetto | 05/13/07
Off topic  markbn | 05/13/07
Re: Fail  markbn | 05/13/07
correction, it was "client side" not "server side"  markbn | 05/13/07
Java's future (or not)  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/12/07
Itanic  mighetto | 05/13/07
Nice Article  cheap.submission | 05/14/07

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