Productivity is up by a factor of two.
Kheradpir is a pragmatist, and while he finds Java imperfect, if he had the decision to do over, he says he'd still pick Java. In late summer, GTE was working to give Internet customers direct access to the application over the Net. But GTE isn't using Java in a vacuum. Kheradpir says GTE is directionally committed to Java, but finds itself using a mix of languages to optimize applications. If an application requires sophisticated logic, GTE tends to use Java.