Did anyone else see Sun's hiring of the JRuby developers as a pathetic attempt to catch up to Microsoft?

That sounds inflamatory. Sorry.

I mean:

1. It's pathetic that Sun is trying to catch up to Microsoft on open source dynamic language environments. Catching up to Microsoft?
2. It's also pathetic because they probably could have hired Jim Hugunin years ago when he was working on Jython, and both made Jython a well-supported tool and the JVM a more dynamic-language-friendly environment. They're playing catch-up now when they could have played themselves as a leader before.

So, apparently lacking any vision whatsoever, Sun waits until now to actually put real effort into the dynamic language community. Of course better late than never, and I have no criticisms for investing in JRuby (nor is this a criticism of JRuby or Ruby), but but the whole timing comes off as merely reactionary.