Yeah it's a bit weak. Shay is a nice fella, but obviously with an agenda to push - like so many others. As someone who came from JDeveloper over to NetBeans I was hoping for a gradual merge into one product (JDev's UI is nicer), but that doesn't appear to be on the agenda. Then again, perhaps to early to tell anything.
/Casper On Nov 12, 9:26 pm, Tor Norbye <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to be clear, this isn't "Oracle answering back" (an official > Oracle response), this is a blog entry by a product manager for > JDeveloper. Not that I've seen anything official from NetBeans either. > I think these are passionate people defending their favorite IDEs, > which has been going on for years and will continue to, regardless of > what happens at the executive level. > > I will say I do find some of the supporting evidence in that blog > entry a bit questionable. Searching job listings for mentions of an > IDE? I can imagine Oracle shops requesting JDeveloper experience, but > what about the vastly larger number of job listings that don't care > which IDE you use? And a Survey of usage among SD Times subscribers? > I'm not sure that's a random sample of world developer usage - all I > can say is I'm not a subscriber, and apparently IntelliJ users aren't > either :) > > -- Tor > > On Nov 12, 8:13 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Well, in any event, it's starting to feel like a showdown. After much > > NetBeans propaganda (we're the only one with an RCP yada yada...), > > Oracle is answering > > back:http://blogs.oracle.com/shay/2009/11/jdeveloper_or_netbeans_-_what.html > > > /Casper > > > On Nov 10, 6:01 pm, Tor Norbye <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Nov 10, 1:53 am, Amarjeet Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/11/oracle-sun-palns > > > > I'm not concerned. What I said was intended as speculation -- there > > > were two "if"'s and one "could" in the statement which got summarized > > > by the author into a concern. As I said earlier in that segment, I > > > don't think Oracle is trying to remove redundancy between their own > > > products and the ones they are buying; they seem to be opening up new > > > business opportunities and markets. > > > > -- Tor --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
