The breaking of the first Java wave is bound to signal a sharp change in the ability of enterprise programmers to think in terms of Java's greatest strengths. I recently browsed through the Stanford University bookstore, where brightly colored iMacs were the focal point of the computer department. A few beige boxes ran Windows off in a corner. And Sears will start selling them at the end of this month. I call that momentum.
Some predictions are easy to make.
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