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Re: Gosling Discusses Java Tools Woes
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Posted: Jul 15, 2004 5:30 AM
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Some quotes from the article:
"Creator...is targeted at the Visual Basic developer -- the sort of person who doesn't want to spend all of his time thinking about the guts of writing code."
"Microsoft set the list price of tools at something so low that it's almost impossible for an independent company that's just focused on tools to actually survive."
"IBM has put just tremendous funding behind the marketing push for Eclipse at a level that is pretty impressive."
So there we have it. VB programmers as basically too stupid to use existing Java tools. When Microsoft brings cheap tools to the market, they're a problem. When IBM brings a free tool to the market, they're "tremendous".
Whilst Mr Gosling may be an exception technical expert, I'm not so convinced about his business acumin.
Vince.
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