Anthony Atkielski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050106 12:53]: > Tom Vilot writes: > TV> I prefer to use just about any other tool (except, of course, for > TV> JSP/.NET, etc). Python, Perl, ... any other tool will do the jobs I > TV> need done and I can avoid the sluggishness of Java, the licensing > TV> ambiguities, and the dependence on a company that is *not* a > TV> software company to begin with! > I tend to agree. Are people still using Java? Perl seems to do just > about everything.
Commercially, yes - particularly for in-house apps, not anything distributed outside. My job is adminning Solaris and Red Hat boxes which are basically running an in-house platform with a pile of custom apps on top, both written in Java. Java's gratis-proprietary license is certainly good enough for our purposes businesswise, and it's cross-platform enough that we've had very little trouble sliding Solaris out from underneath and replacing it with Red Hat (HPaq servers offering a bit more bang for the buck). But you won't see much open-source Java until the license isn't odious. OpenOffice.org only uses it because of Sun. - d. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
