THE KISS OF DEATH: Google Partners with Sun

Don't get me wrong, I like Java, its like a lazy verison of C++ with less control and less ability to protect your original source code from being infected by the GPL like kryptonite to your intellectual property rights but IMHO (and I don't use that FLA often) teaming up with Sun is the KISS OF DEATH and plays into the worst problems that Google currently has, which is of course that being a company with clean-web design fused to its soul, it has the three virtues of programming par excellence.

If Google can learn anything from Sun, it is that the inevitable result of the virtues: youth and skill, must ultimately give way to old age and treachery. For those of you who may read this but don't know me, I'm not accusing Sun of old age and treachery, but I am referring to the wise but depressing proverb "Old age and treachery will trump youth and skill in the end."(no link for you! look it up!) The truth in this proverb is that youthful vigor is difficult to impossible to sustain and relying upon pure analytic brain power is less efficient than being able to use analytic brain power to verify or correct the inferences to be drawn from the wisdom of experience. Unfortunately, when wise Indiana Jones tired from a days fighting pulls out his gun an shoots the sword wielding ninja with mad skills, rather than wasting time and risking injury --- well, it looks like treachery.

What does that mean for Google and Sun? I'm saying that Sun is the shot ninja lying in the in the dust, the crowd around him abating. As it gasps for air, discharging blood from his ventricles rapidly filling with blood, young Google leans over to hear what words of wisdom Sun might have.

"Don't get shot" would be the smart thing to say, but that's not what happens.

"Don't let me die and I'll show you how to wield a sword really fast AND if our combined swordplay is fancy enough, then we can team up! Think of how cool we will look. Plus, bonus: Indiana Jones won't be able to shoot both of us in the gut." is what the dying ninja seems to be saying instead.

But the actual choice to take up dying Ninja sun is left to young naive ninja Google. Google can (1) Waste time and effort trying to learn from Sun how to bring a knife to a gunfight with Microsoft, or (2) leverage mad skills and learn how to get tricky.

Google's gotta get tricky if it wants to topple Microsoft, just like Microsoft got tricky with IBM, when Microsoft was the young one.

Google certainly has the skills to be pretty tricky; tricky like "sis" playing connect four tricky. But Google is also vulnerable because it is a young tech company full of youthful ideals and I believe that Google has been blinded by the glory of Sun. It's a mistake, Kid Icarrus and the Coconuts

Boy... I'm really tired. I love the Indiana Jones movies. Did this post make any sense?