[Bush2000]

I do like the 'Java' group -- Gosling, etc. I respect them. But I do not care for Sun, beyond that.

Like it or not, your future is tied to Sun's. If Sun crashes and burns, the rights to Java crash and burn with it. Somebody will buy those rights at auction and the future of Java will be in serious question because it was never released to a public standards committee.

[Dominic Harr]

If Sun crashes and burns, the rights to Java crash and burn with it.

IBM, HP, Oracle, and literally a thousand other companies make that very unlikely.

In fact, there are many of us that wish Sun would either drop the hardware focus or just spin off the Java division into it's own independent group.

Besides, I'm a developer -- I will just move to the next technology. Could even be .NET, as you already know, I'm working with C# also. I'm technology agnostic. Ironically enough, I'm exactly the type of developer that .NET is going to have to win over if it expects to survive.

I would *never* lock myself into a single vendor, like you have. I have skills, so I don't have to.