Sun, Microsoft renew Java power struggle
eWeek | at | by Mike
In the five years that Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have been fighting over Java, most developers have let their code do the talking. The fate of Java on the desktop is again in the hands of a judge, and developers will likely continue to use Microsoft's .Net or Sun's Java regardless of the decision.
"It will not affect us one bit," said Stephen Forte, chief technology officer at Corzen Inc., an online market research company in New York. "No developer is going to let a judge decide what technology to use. For starters, the judge has no idea what he is talking about. .Net predominantly is a server technology. "As a developer, if we need the current version of the JVM [Java virtual machine], we just download it. Who cares if it comes bundled or not?" Forte said.