[rramadass]

Congratulations, you just proved that you know nothing about why a product succeeds/fails in the market.

It was the initial push (with gobs of money) given by Sun that gave Java the momentum. No language was ever pushed so hard in the marketplace by any other organization. Without that push, the language would never have the popularity that it enjoys today. There is nothing inherently "superior" to the Java language. Far better languages have fallen into obscurity because they did not get the publicity (eg. Eiffel) that Java did.

[Zababa]

That is not how logic works. "Better languages with less marketing are less popular than Java" means that "marketing matters" and that "quality isn't everything", not that "only marketing matters".

[enjoy-your-stay]

And step 1 in marketing a new language is a cute mascot, obviously.