Zurich, Switzerland
Georg Greve is co-founder and CEO of Kolab Systems, a full Open Source Groupware ISV. He has been in the industry for some time with a strong focus on software freedom and Open Standards. Previous endeavours include working on the OOXML standardisation process for Google, authoring the Brave GNU World and founding and presiding over FSFE between the years 2001 and 2009. For his accomplishments in Free Software and Open Standards, Greve was awarded the Cross of Merit on ribbon by the Federal Republic of Germany in 2009.
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Java is a full virtual environment, much like a virtual machine. And multi platform isn't necessarily the same as native on a platform. If one were to follow that logic, Outlook might also be "native" to Linux by virtue of a Windows virtual machine running on the desktop. And Lotus isn't the only solution native to the Java environment.
As to security: Only one of Java or PHP is responsible for 91% of all Indicators of Compromise. Hint: It isn't PHP.
http://www.eweek.com/security/java-primary-cause-of-91-percent-of-attac…
Because while PHP allows bad programmers to write very insecure applications, the language itself provides a *much* smaller attack surface than Java does.
Java clients are native clients to the Java stack, not the underlying platform. With all the security implications this provides.