If people would just admit, and adapt to, the fact that the browser won over native, and Oracle won over Sun, we would avoid this situation with armies of Java developers making rube goldberg variations of basic relational, sysadmin, and gui programming tasks. But then again, how would we employ all the people with these extreme productivity multipliers, as long as our politics and economic system is still pretending that we just had the industrial revolution, and need to man the assembly lines, then Parkinson's law will apply for tech work just like everything else.