Re: Replacing Delphi developers

From: Doug Kanter (ancientangler_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/09/03 

Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 14:43:58 GMT

"David Reeve" <dree4456@big-pond.net.au> wrote in message
news:jG9Bb.45106$aT.2394@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> "Doug Kanter" <ancientangler@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:hD0Bb.3932$Xs3.583@news01.roc.ny...
> [snip]
> > My only experience with java is on the user end, and it was ugly. Real
> ugly.
> > And slow. Real slow. I'd like to see a handful of successful business
> > projects before suggesting that to my son. Not games.
> >
> >
> I'm pretty sure Star Office is coded entirely in Java. In particular, have
a
> play with Star Draw and think about the coding that must be involved. It's
> really pretty slick.
>
> Dave
>
>

That's good to hear. The app I'm acquainted with was built by a supplier of
mine for visitors to their web site. Even if we use it daily, it takes 10
minutes for the app to download, and another 5 minutes to actually begin
running. It draws screens the way Windows does when it's exhausted too many
resources and you know it's about to crash. And, after logging out of the
java app, it takes close to 15 minutes to unload from memory. During this
time, the machine behaves like a 386 with 16mb of RAM. :-)

Not a good promo for java.

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