Christoph Maser wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 04.11.2009, 23:04 +0100 schrieb Les Mikesell:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
People don't even come to me with windows questions anymore because I'm so out of touch with it. Only so many brain cells and I'd rather spend them on more valuable things(networking, storage, virtualization, HA, scalability etc)
Well, there's always java, in spite of the damage Red Hat has done to it by shipping a broken imitation for years. Maybe hardware has gotten to the point where the overhead doesn't matter.
No. It matters. And I don't care what version of java, I really dislike it, because *it's* broken; or, rather, it failed at what it was supposed to do: a) solve the software backlog,
You can't do that with companies shipping broken or non-standard implementations. There's not much reason to continue that now.
I work in a java shop and I really thik you both are wrong. We do some pretty amazing things with it and openjdk in centos (wich I think you were relating to) is working quite well for us.
This wasn't a complaint about openjdk. But how long has that been included in RHEL/Centos and how many years was something else called java shipped that didn't actually run java programs? And how difficult was it to get a properly packaged working version of java installed if/when you understood why your programs didn't run? I believe java has been set back enormously because of that.