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I've never been a huge fan of this guy.  In fact, just the opposite.  But I have my reasons and his blog demonstrates clearly why I can't stand this guy.

Going from SUNW to JAVA for the company stock ticker?

I honestly don't know where this guy gets his ideas from.  Wherever that place is, it surely isn't from sound judgment.  I can't see his reasoning in changing a branded company and seeing some sort of value involved in this.  My feeling is that this is his political move to show that he instigated a major change for the company.  But truthfully, everything eventually boils down to the products and services the company provides along with the  real return on investment.  I don't feel Sun provide any of these under Schwartz's "leadership". 

My gut feeling is that Sun has gotten too massive and unfocused as a company and not putting enough money at the right places.  They want to be a top to bottom solutions company from the consulting services right down to the hardware level.  It's too overwhelming and underspecialized to make a statement for me.

But the thing that goads me here is the gall for Schwartz to believe that firmly in Java as to desecrate Sun's remaining legacy with possibly it's biggest failures (say what you want, I'm a believer that Java has done more harm than good to the IT industry as  a whole). But now what he's saying is that Java has more value than their servers, which to me is a huge laugh.

Java is a growing fossil.  It's like a decaying piece of meat in your garden, decomposing and making everything else stink.  Or worse yet, it decomposes everything around it.

I think Sun needs to stop proposing myths about itself, and more importantly Java.  After working with all these "best practices" in industry, I'm firmly convinced that these are not truly "best practices" but just methods to ensure job  security for wannabe bureaucrats.  And to leave with my last thoughts, Java was never useful from the beginning.  The industry (NOT SUN) made java use-able.