By Sarah Left, 20 August 1998 00:30
NEWS Butler Group founder, Martin Butler, has slammed Java as a low-level programming language that doesn't lend itself to complex applications. In an exclusive interview with Silicon News, Butler said corporates using Java are experiencing "a performance bottleneck that is holding them back from producing larger and more complex applications." He said his firm's research shows only five per cent of corporations in Europe are using Java, with virtually none of them building truly successful, complex applications with it. "It's ironic that at a time when we need highly performant languages - with the emergence of electronic commerce - we've got a language which is inherently slow," he claimed. Bloor Research analyst, Tony Clifford-Winters took exception to Butler's comments: "How many technologies work as fast as they ought to three years after coming to market? How many corporates went into Cobol after only 3 years?" Clifford-Winters said many major software companies are developing applications in Java. He said Sun has thrown out a figure of 1,200 applications available in Java. "If all those major companies thought it was a problem, they wouldn't be writing applications in it, and they are. For systems management developers, if you need to write programs for NT, Unix and other environments, the only real way to do it is by using something adaptable, like Java." The full interview can be viewed in Silicon's Java Channel.
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