Story: Sun has betrayed us all

Posted by: Anonymous (Sunday 10 October 2004, 5:24 PM)

I develop software for the mobile market. Our latest project took over a year to complete, during that time midp2 devices started to emerge, all with different implementations of the specs, which gave us a headache! Now with information coming to surface regarding their deal with MS, I find it totally impossible to bank our biz on their technology. As of yesterday all coming projects will be done in Symbian! Not only does it give us access to different parts of the device, we also won't have to wait for emerging jsr's, which may or may not work device independent. We will give up the "write once run everywhere" features of j2me, which isn't working anyway. Thats why you usually have to download Your-device-version-of-the-program, which may or may not work with your firmware... Don't get me wrong, It's not the technology in itself, it's SUNs nutty behaviour. Yes we support OSS, No it's bad with OSS, Yes Linux is good, NO Linux is crap, Solaris rules. We hate MS, We love MS, The Network is the computer..and on and on it goes..the latest of McNealys rantings pushed me over the line....and now this Patent biz (coupled with the bedplay with MS)...goodbuy.