What Lies Beneath

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So I was mystified by the frenzied coverage of the American Idol finale last week, which I caught while I was in the gym last Thursday. I was even more astonished that something like 22 million people voted on the outcome, which represents roughly one-fifth of the total number of people who voted in the last presidential election. I wonder how many of those people would admit publicly to voting in the American Idol spectacle?

HEATHER CLANCY

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My point is that what people say and what they do are sometimes diametrically opposed to each other. So, while many have been busy pooh-poohing the viability of Java and Linux within corporate America for the past several years, a strange thing has been happening,companies have been deploying applications that rely a whole lot on one or the other of these technologies. Or both.

This point was brought home for me earlier this month during a presentation by Mercury Interactive, which recently released a J2EE version of its Optane application delivery and management suite. Executives for Mercury,which, by the way, is a profitable public company,said the release was a nod to the growing acceptance of J2EE among corporate developers.

This was just the latest indication, of course, that Java has taken on a life of its own, due in part to the efforts of BEA Systems and IBM to provide tools that strip it of some of its complexity. Of course, we have a long, long way to go.

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