Sun following Microsoft...again

just one more time that sun has completely, totally amazed me with their, well... badoingas.[Brady Gaster]

Seems that Sun's announced their intent to create a new IDE for Java. They also claim that they're going to get 10 million new developers with it. The phrase "pull the other one" comes to mind.

I also can't help but wondering whether perhaps Sun is attempting to replicate the success that Microsoft has had with their Visual Studio line, as well as the free Web Matrix Project (hmm...Web Matrix Project...Project Rave, no similarities there...at least it's not as obvious as JSP, or JDBC).

OTOH, even if Sun is following again, rather than leading, if they follow through and create a useful IDE for Java, that's all to the good IMO. The more solid tools there are for developers, the better. Whether or not Sun's claims of the developers that will flock to Rave are accurate or not, they still may have something useful to offer. After all, the developers of C#, while not cloning Java as some claim, certainly took advantage of the knowledge of what worked well in Java and what didn't. If Sun follows the same recipe with Project Rave, they may end up with a useful IDE, and one that Microsoft can learn from for their future tools.

2 Comments

  • I think 'leapfrogging' is a more accurate phrase. Java built on what came before it, .net builds on that, etc... it's progress and I hope it continues.

  • It is an excellent choice by Microsoft and then by Sun to create Tools that users / customers can benefit from at the same time giving more to programming community to do more from a back-end , business logic perspective.



    It is a real improvement from the WABI days -



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