"in my experience" makes sense, but yes, you can argue that Cedric's experience doesn't count for anything if you like. In my experience, Spizzico pizza is better than the pizza in half the restaurants in Italy. My experience is pretty small, but that doesn't make the sentence less true.
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Fabrizio Giudici < [email protected]> wrote: > On 9/20/10 16:18 , Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > >> Fabrizio, >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Fabrizio Giudici < >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> wrote: >> >> >> At the risk of being snarky, I'll go ahead and say that just >> like JavaFX, the only times I ever hear about NetBeans is >> during JavaOne or from Sun employees... >> >> >From my experience, NetBeans has been reduced to a minuscule >> niche compared to IDEA and Eclipse. >> >> The spoof of the day. There are plenty of industrial adopters of >> the Platform listed on the NetBeans website, so you could probably >> just take the time to have a look before writing nonsense. >> >> >> I didn't really expect a different reaction from a member of the "NetBeans >> Dream Team" :-) >> > Cedric, the NBDT is made by people not paid by Oracle. It is made by people > that have a pre-existing interest in the technology because they work on it, > and as I said there's plenty of large corporate customers working on it. > BTW, the NBDT is the representative of the open source community interested > in the NetBeans Platform. Is this the kind of respect that Google reserves > for open source communities? :-) > > Re: "successful technologies don't list customers", this sounds as > nonsense. I understand that the current legal war makes probably Google > personnel to speak politics instead of engineering, and that Google > employees are somewhat limited on what they can say, so I won't replicate. > > For what concerns the reference "in my experience", as quoted by Ricky, > that's don't make sense too. I could easily say and prove that e.g. in Italy > almost nobody knows Android, but this holds true only in a specific place > and time, and doesn't have any value for inferring about Android popularity > in other parts of the world, or in Italy's future. > > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > > -- > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- 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.
