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Weblog:   Virtual Machine War
Subject:   The premise, despite its popularity, is wrong
Date:   2004-02-06 08:31:51
From:   Elian
The whole "this is a war!" premise is just flat-out wrong. It isn't a war, and it never has been. There won't ultimately be one big "winner" here. The world is an enourmous, complex place, with many different, varying, sometimes conflicting conflicting needs and requirements, and to think that a single anything could reasonably satisfy them all's overwhelmignly arrogant, hopelessly naive, and terribly foolish.


.NET will have its niche, as will Parrot, the JVM, and VMs that come along later, as do the VMs that came before us did and still do. The only thing that looking on this as a "war" will do is make sure that everyone loses some in the end. Hardly a productive outcome, unless you're feeling petty.