David Spenhoff

Java is pushing the envelope of future business opportunities by helping software developers and vendors go where they have not gone before - opening new frontiers and creating new markets. The latest numbers estimate that there are now over 400,000 serious Java developers, up from just 200,000 six months ago. Good evidence of this is the fact that the JDK has been downloaded over 450,000 times since it was released just two months ago. People who download the JDK are serious about developing in Java because it presents a great opportunity for building a scalable foundation to take computing into the networked age. A grass roots campaign for Java is building. There are over 160 universities that now teach Java programming, many as their introductory programming course. There are over 150 books in print on the Java language, another 150 in the works and over 200 fore... (more)