>> 9. It's designed for large organizations. Large organizations have different aims from hackers. >This is where I think pg's bias steered him wrong.

I generally agree and it's ironic too since Java the platform was conceived with embedded programming as the target medium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(software_platform)

It wasn't until the very end of the 90's when Enterprise Java came on the scene.

So claim no. 9 was weakly founded in only about 1 year of history prior to the OP article.

I still think of Java more as the SE version than the enterprise version.