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Ten Years On, Java's Still Percolating
Posted on Jun 20, 2005 at 02:10 PM by Aaron Ricadela

Next Monday at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of the Java programming language and its "write-once-run-anywhere" run time with a speech by co-creator James Gosling, and other workshops and festivities. But five years after Microsoft's introduction of its .Net programming technologies to help Windows match Java's technical capabilities, it's worth asking how important Java is to companies.

That's the subject of a new quick poll on InformationWeek.com--tell us how relevant Java is to your organization. Sun says there are 4.5 million Java developers, and 700 million PCs running Java software, introduced by Sun science office director John Gage and Netscape Communications co-founder Marc Andreessen back in May 1995. Today, business application development has essentially boiled down to two choices: Java or .Net. And despite the inroads made by Microsoft, Java still holds an important place in corporate IT, according to an InformationWeek research study of 300 business-technology managers last December. Forty-five percent of all respondents--and 65% of those at large companies--counted Java-based business apps among their '05 projects. And the numbers are on the upswing: Just 51% of respondents at large companies listed Java apps on their project lists two years ago. Java on its 10th birthday is more mature and stable than during the freewheeling vendor wars of the '90s. But it still looks vital to computer users.

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