As a managed cloud computing provider, I have the fortunate position of watching my customers bring their software products to life. I see many of the reasons you give for people not choosing Java, but one you didn't list was the personality of the architect/developer. I do believe that PHP and Ruby are easier to get started with than Java. Someone who thinks their project is "just a few thousand lines of code" and wants to use an extreme-programming "code and go" style of development where refactoring is a way of life, probably will be more likely to choose an "easy" language and start prototyping in it. Those customers of mine who have their architecture planned out in detail and realize the complexity of what they're trying to build seem more likely to choose Java because of the explicit support for complexity it provides. There are also performance considerations: the customers I have who use Java seem to have less niggling performance problems than those using PHP or Ruby. If performance isn't considered in advance, this could affect the choice of language.

does anyone else think this blogger is like a little stereotypical at all?

Let me sum up all these posts.

Java, like its creators at Sun, is anal retentive.

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