Java everywhere: what, ten years already? Java, Sun's universal solution to everything--or so we thought at the time--was going to revolutionise the computer industry, recalls Karen Young. In a way it has, but ironically only by becoming less obviously visible.(Information Technology)

African Review of Business and Technology,  August, 2005  by Young, Karen

Tags: computer, industry, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc.

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IN AN OPEN IT world where open source and Linux are the common currency of discussion, it's sometimes hard to remember back to a time when proprietary was the norm and Sun's major play for platform independence with Java was a revolutionary step forward.

Heavily criticised at launch (partly because nobody could quite work out if it was a programming language, an OS or an infrastructure play, or maybe even all three as it turned out) and a serious victim of Microsoft's 'big gorilla' tactics, Java has survived to become, almost out of our sight, the lingua franca for enterprise ...

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