Joe Public

Sun CEO's Claim That JavaFX Is the Fastest Growing RIA Platform: Completely Untrue

I think Dan is Right On with this post. When a supposedly leading company feels the need to try to put this much of a happy face on their communications, one wonders whate else they are spinning that we may not pick up on so easily. This speaks to a lack of integrity and/or a situation where management is drinking its own Kool-Aid. Neither is good.

I'll agree with Akiso: choices are good for developers. But what about users? Sun put JavaFX on users' PCs as part of the Java Update process. Where was the choice there? With Flash, you download it if/when you need it the first time, and it is optional. With Silverlight, it is an optional download from Microsoft Update. With JavaFX, it piggybacks on a Java Runtime security update. Sun deserves to be taken to the woodshed on this one. And I submit that Sun is down due to "suboptimal" management decisions over the years.