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The Future of Java

Posted June 9, 1998 | Leadership | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify

I've just returned from a week in Rome, where I presented a seminar on application development for the Internet. One of the most frequent questions I received was, "What about the future of Java?" Italians, Europeans, and Americans have been hearing a lot lately about the uncertainty surrounding Java's future. Is Sun struggling? Is Javasoft reorganizing, and what does that bode for its future? Will Microsoft prevail in its lawsuit, and thus have the freedom to develop and market its own bastardized version of the language?

About The Author
Ed Yourdon
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More
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