Friday April 9, 2010
Yes, indeed, the rumors are true: I resigned from Oracle a week ago (April 2nd). I apologize to everyone in St Petersburg who came to TechDays on Thursday expecting to hear from me. I really hated not being there. As to why I left, it's difficult to answer: Just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good. The hardest part is no longer being with all the great people I've had the privilege to work with over the years. I don't know what I'm going to do next, other than take some time off before I start job hunting.
This is the new home of my blog. It contains all of my old blog entries from Sun: Sun's blogging policy gave bloggers rights to their own works. The few more recent blog entries that I did at blogs.sun.com were written under somewhat more strict policies :-)
James Gosling
James, We salute you. I'm literally crying that what's going to be the next step for Java and millions of Devs's around the globe, in the current hands.
I'm from India and did got involved in Java applets, servlets, JSP (in alpha stages) around late 90's and moved to .NET during it's beta and still with M$ camp now, living breathing in WCF/WF/WPF/Silverlight et all. Being said that, I've spent numerous nights with friends learning Java, in small city in Southern part of India when no one knew what it is, when ASP was the behemoth.
I've been an inspirational figure in my small town in my college during my post grad to tell everyone that im doing my MCA proj in JSP/Java Applets. Due to my frustration with Sun not releasing / progressing / having too many people involved in each spec, getting the initiative thru JSP taglibs, Tomcat and then to JSF, and lack of IDE's at that time for Java, we small set of Devs moved to .NET and VS.NET.
Still, I remember the days we spent on Java, the new thing, read about you and few other ppl in Sun, making stories about the Java cup (I never knew which one is actual one) and how James and others in Sun initial days got the Coffe cup as the symbol for Java.... Oh,mm those are good old days. Still I follow Java developments, but, you know, when the news broke that ORCL took Sun, i thought oh man, the new things in .NET space may go to an end. As you know, if there's no competition what'll happen to WinMo/Palm. Who's going to drive the Tech 4GL space now....
I think some young grds in MIT, or even maybe in IIT India/China, may need to comeup with a New language / platform and give a paradigm shift to developer community.
I think, Change does have lots of meaning, as it changes whenever it happens.
Now, I believe 2012 had already begun, but, I still've hope like the few people might save the Dev community, like in that 2012 Noah's Ark, try to give birth to a New World.
We all Salute you, millions, No, Billions of Devs across the World.
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