In 2000, Java was still about doing dancing applets, businesses only started taking Java marketing seriously after two things happened, Hotspot became a thing, making it more appealing than C++ for cross-platform server code, versus dealing with the mess of writing portable C++ code when most compilers were a mix of C++ARM and catching up to C++98, with C++ compiler specific frameworks being heavily used.
The second one was Sun's Distributed Objects Everywhere project being canceled, and the Objective-C code being reborn into the first J2EE proposal.
There was nothing else like that for business software other than Smalltalk and later .NET, however most Java vendors were ex-Smalltalkers, and in 2001 .NET was a no-go for anyone that would care about supporting UNIX deployments as well.
In 2001, we were moving away from scripting + write extensions into C, into Java, and only pivoted into .NET because being a MSFT partner with access to the "partner eyes only" betas from Microsft before .NET was announced, additionally there was some ideas to move away from UNIX customers.
However by 2006, while at Nokia Networks, a strong UNIX shop back then, the large majority of their applications were going into the Rewrite into Java phase.
The second one was Sun's Distributed Objects Everywhere project being canceled, and the Objective-C code being reborn into the first J2EE proposal.
There was nothing else like that for business software other than Smalltalk and later .NET, however most Java vendors were ex-Smalltalkers, and in 2001 .NET was a no-go for anyone that would care about supporting UNIX deployments as well.
In 2001, we were moving away from scripting + write extensions into C, into Java, and only pivoted into .NET because being a MSFT partner with access to the "partner eyes only" betas from Microsft before .NET was announced, additionally there was some ideas to move away from UNIX customers.
However by 2006, while at Nokia Networks, a strong UNIX shop back then, the large majority of their applications were going into the Rewrite into Java phase.