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cloudking ◴[16 May 25 14:43 UTC] No.44006117[source]▶

Why is Java so popular in enterprise?

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hackthemack ◴[16 May 25 14:51 UTC] No.44006195[source]▶

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I worked in IT from the 90s to today. My perspective is it grew and grew because Sun supported it, then IBM supported it, RedHat supported it. It had the glimmer that it was the "Enterprise Way" of doing "Real IT" programming for "Real Businesses". I am not saying any of that is the "Truth", just the perception that was held by the majority of people who could choose what to write enterprise code in.

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1. toyg ◴[16 May 25 15:04 UTC] No.44006373[source]▶

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> Sun supported it, then IBM supported it, RedHat supported it

And Oracle (well before the Sun acquisition - in fact, control of Java was basically the main cause of that move).

Any technology that could bag both IBM and Oracle is (or rather was) likely to dominate the enterprise space.

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