The Unwritten Story Of Open Source Java
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| What Sun finally did this week by releasing Java under GPL
| was a historic event. Using the GPL instead of yet another
| Sun license certainly makes adoption that much easier. But
| why did it take so long and why the change now?
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| I left Sun in 2004 after 8 fun years at Javasoft. Open
| Source Java was a annual discussion at Sun and in many
| conversations with open source advocates and companies.
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http://linux.sys-con.com/read/308452.htm
Related:
101 Reasons Why Java is Better than .NET (Reloaded)
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| # Public Domain APIs - Any Java public apis are part of the public
| domain, .NET apis are proprietary and can open the door to a law suit.
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| # Standard Library Source Code Availability - Java source code for the
| core libraries are available in every J2SDK distribution, .NET sources
| can only be seen by resorting to illegal means.
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http://www.helpdesk-software.ws/it/29-04-2004.htm
Developers Embrace Java, Drop Visual Basic
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| Use of Visual Basic has dropped 35% since the spring, says a
| poll of more than 430 North American developers done by research
| company Evans Data.
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| [...]
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| Developers have abandoned Microsoft's Visual Basic in droves
| during the last six months, and they're using Java more than any
| other development language, according to a recently published
| survey.
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http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196600515
TIOBE Programming Community Index for November 2006
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| Java 20.400%
| C 17.198%
| C++ 11.055%
| (Visual) Basic 9.470%
| PHP 9.209%
| Perl 6.228%
| Python 3.641%
| C# 3.023%
| JavaScript 2.310%
| Delphi 2.252%
| SAS 2.210%
| Ruby 1.717%
| PL/SQL 1.223%
| D 0.684%
| ABAP 0.637%
| Lisp/Scheme 0.586%
| COBOL 0.564%
| Ada 0.546%
| Pascal 0.516%
| Visual FoxPro 0.431%
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http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index
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