Expecting PR fluff, I almost didn't read this interview with James Gosling on BuilderAU. I was pleasantly surprised by his frankness as he spoke of the obstacles on Java's road to broader acceptance:
... So if you want to build say, an infrastructure for a large global bank or a national medical system for a 100 million people, no problem. All the facilities with J2EE deals with that kind of scale.
(But) the problem with dealing in that kind of scale is that it brings about a certain amount of complexity. So our system have tended to be, wellÂ… like if you want to do the really hard stuff, it is possible, but doing the easy stuff, it is hard.
The article also touches on the IBM-Eclipse relationship, Sun's agreements with Microsoft, cell phone development, and Queen Elizabeth I.
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