But why Java?

On April 4, 2005, The Financial Express published some numbers on Javaand how it stands today after 10 years of growth.- 579 million Java enabled phones Quoting from the article:“Globally, over 4.5 million software developers work on Java. Java is a $100 billion dollar per year industry. $2.2 billion is invested yearly in Java application servers and $110billion in related IT.There are 100 carrier deployments and 579 million Java enabled phones. Seven out of 10 wireless applications currently under constructionswill use Java technology runtime environment.The Java mobile game market is estimated at around $3 billion. Around 750 million Java cards have been deployed globally”