{"id":449,"date":"2003-12-19T21:56:46","date_gmt":"2003-12-20T00:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=449"},"modified":"2003-12-19T21:56:46","modified_gmt":"2003-12-20T00:56:46","slug":"suns-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"Sun&#8217;s burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>S<\/span>un&#8217;s got a problem, just as Alfons already points out <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~alfons\/weblog\/archives\/2003_12.html#001187\">in his latest entry<\/a>:  Sun&#8217;s Java Desktop isn&#8217;t all about Java. It&#8217;s a complete package of GNOME, StarOffice, Mozilla, Evolution, <em>Java<\/em> run on top of an ordinary Linux kernel. Sounds familiar? Yes: <a href=\"http:\/\/wwws.sun.com\/software\/javadesktopsystem\/faq.html#0q0\">it&#8217;s just another Linux distribution<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Note this:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;An IT manager, who asked not to be named, said he could not understand why a user would trade one proprietary desktop for another. &#8220;I personally keep Java off my computer because it crashes the system,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If Sun had the interests of the customer in mind, then the Sun desktop would be written in C and donated to Linux. Sun is no better than Microsoft.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>I never liked Java either, but this particular IT manager should be fired: it&#8217;s this kind of ignorance that <em>kills<\/em> IT. As for Sun: I wish them good luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun&#8217;s got a problem, just as Alfons already points out in his latest entry: Sun&#8217;s Java Desktop isn&#8217;t all about Java. It&#8217;s a complete package of GNOME, StarOffice, Mozilla, Evolution, Java run on top of an ordinary Linux kernel. Sounds &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}