Now that Oracle is suing Google over Java... or maybe I should say, now that Oracle owns Sun... how many companies are going to want to develop enterprise applications in Java?

James Gosling writes:
    During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle.

How does it feel to be a Java developer and see this going on?

And then what about Mysql?

A trip down memory lane... Back in the day I was hired to do some of the first online ads in Java... they were for Symantec's Java IDE Cafe and then Visual Cafe, contracted by Symantec's Ad Agency, GMO... the first one I wrote the code by hand since Cafe wasn't out yet, and then I used Cafe for the subsequent 2 ad campaigns... the first one featured a frog croaking and went on Javaworld and other sites... it led to a page with a frog in a blender... it had huge click-through because of the sound and caused some new restrictions on ads accepted by Web Publishing Inc, if I recall correctly... then there were the early days of Marimba, where I organized a couple of user group meetings, including one w/ Arthur Van Hoff in my loft, and visited their office once too... I recall running a Marimba app (tuner/channel?) that one of the Marimba team managed to access even though I was serving it via a Ricochet modem... fun, fun...

I never found Java to be as productive as PHP and other scripting languages, so I focused more on the more productive scripting environments.

-A