from https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/03/pizza_roaches_and_java/:
section header: "Dead again"
[Last year, a report from Gartner declaring the end of Java EE’s dominance invigorated all the latent tension in the community. As one of the report’s authors put it: "People don't need 90 per cent of the stuff sitting in Java EE to build modern enterprise applications.”
Predictably, such statements drove counter-arguments of analyst payola and ignorance in the ever-delightful ad hominem style (I'm looking forward to finding out how much of a moron I am this time in the comments section - KISSES!). Vendors who benefited from a decline in Java EE only offered wry smiles and download figures, while the original analysts gave the equivalent of a tired shruggie as they stuck by their guns and pdf-splained their original analysis.]
Reminded me of the almighty wisdom of Gartner from the eyes of the VFP developer many moons ago...
On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:05 AM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
Reminded me of the almighty wisdom of Gartner from the eyes of the VFP developer many moons ago...
And eWeek. They did it, too.
That's the game; make the headlines every week. Once in a while, you're right, and people remember that. And you mention it whenever you get the chance, "I'm the guy who said that Oracle should buy Dyn"
FoxPro was declared dead three or four times before MS made anything official.
Windows has been declared dead a couple of times too.
And I hear it's the year of the Linux desktop.
I think if you count the Raspberry Pi (and compatibles) then I think it may very well be the year of the Linux desktop. It might just be something different than what we were thinking when we said "desktop"! :P
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Monday, April 17, 2017 6:14 PM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Gartner predicting things "dead" again and the user community reaction....deja vu?
And I hear it's the year of the Linux desktop.
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