On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:00:56 -0400, Micha Schopman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I dont think anyone with enough knowledge says Java is slow :) In fact, .NET > currently is slower than Java which is pretty funny compared to the wrapper > (around win32) .NET actually is, compared to Java which has to do all on his > own. (btw.. benches: http://www.shudo.net/jit/perf/).
Thanx for pulling up benchmarks to back that up. I'd also heard Java was faster than .NET but hadn't seen any evidence. Of course, I'd also heard .NET was faster than Java :) > I just think alot of people are scared about the immense .net approach > companies are taking nowadays, and therefore people want to push Macromedia > to invest in CF as a core product and to use it's marketing on CF and > publicly promote their product. Combine that with bad economy and fear of > losing your job due to lack of .net knowledge and you have "bingo". I think this is a very interesting point (and, hey, for once I'm agreeing with Micha!). Java has had huge growth with a lot of support from Sun and IBM and others and, according to several studies, J2EE is still doing much better than .NET (and .NET is *not* taking business away from J2EE as Microsoft had hoped) and yet... and yet people didn't seem to be scared by the growth of Java. Macromedia doesn't have the marketing budget that Microsoft has so you'll never see Superbowl ads for ColdFusion. You can't compare the two companies in that respect. But "fear of losing your job due to lack of .net knowledge" is exactly what Microsoft wants. They want you to believe that if you don't learn .NET, you're dead. There's something very particular about Microsoft that seems to have people worried that technology "X" will take over the world and we'll all be forced to switch to it... yet the facts don't really back that up. -- Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/ Team Fusebox -- http://www.fusebox.org/ Breeze Me! -- http://www.corfield.org/breezeme "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - New Atlanta http://www.newatlanta.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:187297 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
