“No one said being a savior is easy. Just ask the Sun
Microsystems unit formerly known as JavaSoft.”
“Just last spring, Java was in trouble. The platform that was
going to save the computing world from Microsoft, with
cross-platform computing, seemed to be going nowhere fast.”
“We went through a very difficult period,” said Alan Baratz,
president of Sun’s Java division, in a recent interview with PC
Week. “When we first launched Java [in late 1995] we could do no
wrong. The press loved us. We were the darlings of the industry.
Everybody viewed [Java] as industry-transforming technology, the
universal cure. About a year and a half into it we started to get
questions like, Where’s the performance? Where’s the stability?
Where are the applications? Is this thing real or not?”