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10 Years of .Net – Is Java losing the battle? »

Here is an interesting article from The Register, about 10 Years of .Net. While the article does reflect on .Net’s journey in the last 10 years, what made me wonder is really about Java. Java was touted to the developer community for its, “write once, run anywhere”. But if you now look at Java’s usage, it is used more on the enterprise applications (J2EE) and to some extent on mobile devices. While it makes some sense for mobile applications, I don’t understand why one would need platform independence on the server side. While the language itself is easy to learn and write, you will see plethora of web application frameworks, based on all kinds of patterns. While choice is good, you will soon realize that too many choices waste significant amount of time, evaluating the right one, for your project. Even though proprietary, getting into .Net based applications is not that difficult,when compared to Seam.

While applets are no more exciting, why is Oracle-Sun not working on competing with Silverlight or AIR? If Microsoft saw the potential in Java’s ease and made C#, Sun should also have tried something in this space. Steve Jobs have always not shown much interest using Flash. This is a great opportunity for Sun to leverage its developer base and come out with something slick.

Apple Sues HTC For Infringing On iPhone Patents »

According to this article at Gizmodo, Apple is suing HTC for infringing on some 20 patents related to user interface. Earlier, Nokia was also accused of the same thing. Here is what Steve Jobs had to say on the lawsuit:

“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”