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Wed, 07 May 2008
Day Two Thoughts
Crowds and Lines are the major impression of the JavaOne. They have some nifty new technology which, in the opening general session, they claimed would eliminate the lines . . . It didn't . . . the picture at the right is from the opening day. It's the line for the first general session. Yes, it comes down the left side of the picture and goes on down the right side of the picture. The hall is at the fare end beyond site. OK, so technically they didn't say that these devices would eliminate these lines, but they don't seem to have been effective in eliminating the lines for the individual sessions either. Oh well, so much for technology.
And speaking of technology, I have been thinking more about the monitizing of the technology and the future of technology. I'm listening to the sessions and I wondering how the profit motive is driving the future of technology. The keynote today was given by Oracle and was basically an hour-long commercial for their products. Now admitedly, some of their developer tools are pretty neat, but you wonder at the underlying licensing costs for the technologies on which those tools are based. Tool vendors have a great deal of influence over the direction of this type of market. If they provide tools which can make programmers more productive, they can sell the technologies -- databases, middleware, portal servers, application servers which are the under-pinnings of the technology which the tools implement.
The emphasis of much of the future of the Java platform seems to be connected devices and the device manufacturers are in evidence everywhere you look at JavaOne. Parts of the conference make it look more like a cell phone vendor's conference than a Java conference. Of course, the database vendors, server vendors, middleware venders, etc. are there in support of these products. After all, you'll need those databases and application servers to host all those nifty applications that you will run on those connected devices.
Those are my thoughts today. I have to rest up, it takes a lot of energy to stand in those lines -- even if they are being eliminated . . .
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