Could Python supplant Java?

[netvegetable]

Not offering any personal opinion on this conjecture, but a lot of people 
are saying that java has failed to become a widely accepted cross platform 
language for applications.

These leaves the world defenseless against the Microsoft Borg.

But could Python do the trick? The python interpreter is smaller than the 
JRE, and it's certainly a nicely structured language, with nearly all the 
coding features of Java. 

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