Microsoft is Golden sponsor for the Java Developer Conference in Egypt
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| Microsoft? Yes, Microsoft will be a Golden sponsor in the Java Developer
| Conference which organized by the Egyptian Java User Group.
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http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ahashim/archive/2008/02/microsoft_is_go_1.html
Microsoft gets desperate, envious because developers embrace Java (see bottom).
"The core of this trial is consumer choice and the premise is that consumers
ought to make that decision, not Microsoft. Microsoft’s argument that says
Java would have died anyway is a little bit like saying if somebody shoots you
they can defend [themselves] by saying you have cancer."
-- David Boies
"We do NOT want to ship the ’standard’ with Windows because we want to make the
native APIs more attractive. We want to evolve the standard APIs rapidly, and
not have ISVs [independent software vendors] spending time on something that
is cross-platform. Java standard server APIs are bad news for us. I veto any
cooperation with this group unless someone comes and convinces me otherwise."
-- Bill Gates, Microsoft
"Don’t encourage new, cross-platform Java classes, especially don’t help get
great Win 32 implementations written/deployed. (..) Do encourage fragmentation
of the Java classlib space."
-- Ben Slivka, Microsoft
Related:
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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| 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
Survey: Windows loses ground with developers
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| Linux gaining share as the number of developers targeting Windows falls
| 12 percent, Evans Data says
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/02/mswindows-share_1.html
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