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Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996) by xtracto on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:16AM (#29825449)
I think Gates didn't have anything to worry about regarding Java... at the end of the day, the company that created it went under the water in 2009. Java as a technology was great, but as a business just didn't cut it.
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Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996) by ThrowawayR2 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:21PM (#29826473)
Nobody knew that at the time. 2000 is the peak for both for companies before the dotcom bust and Sun Microsystems had $18.3 billion in revenue, not that far behind Microsoft's $22.9 billion in revenue.
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Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996) by garbagecoder on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:40PM (#29827859)
And wasn’t part of that that MS made it’s own implementation? One that I recall being preferable as a user.
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