Lastly, we provide tools that enable customers to connect to processes. You need to connect or extend out to the supply chain e-commerce platforms with process integration and collaboration tools. There are a lot of great things about Java. It's an open standard and it's OS independent, which is very attractive to our customers. It's easy to learn and takes care of a lot of programming tasks for you.
Developers can be a lot more productive with it, and there are lots of tools now.
There's also a groundswell of support. Higher productivity and reusability. The half-life of applications is shorter these days. With Java, you can take components and reuse them in future generations of products and evolve only those components that need updating. You can also develop applications for one market segment and then make modifications for another market segment.