Sifting through the news from JavaOne this week, I can’t help but wonder when we’ll stop developing our personal silos and truly get into community. Sun is a wonderful company, but I’m with Zonker on this one: Do we really need another operating system, application server, RIA platform, etc.
This isn’t just a Sun platform. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. are all guilty of the same eighth deadly sin of overdevelopment and reinvention of the wheel.
Adobe has AIR. Microsoft has Silverlight. Now Sun has JavaFX. Each does basically the same thing: Make development and deployment of Rich World wide web Applications easier. If asked why they don’t simply collaborate on a core platform, each will likely speak about the infinite advantages of their own platform.
Maybe they’re right. But I doubt it.
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