>From a recent Merrill Lynch report on BEA: > In most companies the legions of Cobol, 4GL, VB developers, and > corporate developers significantly outnumber the hardcore Java > programming rocket scientists.
(I'm holding out for "brain surgeon" :-) FWIW their analyst really likes WebLogic Workshop: > a tool that can drive widespread developer adoption, becoming almost > like a fungus spreading throughout a company. but not JBoss: > We don't believe the hype when it comes to the potential threat of > commoditization by an open source J2EE product such as the JBoss > group. Open source is interesting but its impact on the application > infrastructure platform market is much smaller than most have > speculated. <snip> > We would agree that for some very basic development and testing > activities, an open source J2EE market will exist but it will likely > not reach much more than mid single digit market penetration. <snip> > The JBoss group has done a tremendous job at garnering a lot of > attention around its "poaching" of BEA and IBM customers. During our > field checks we have found many of those claims to be somewhat > exaggerated and the impact to be much smaller than hyped. We are > finding many examples where customers are migrating from JBoss to > BEA. The primary reason for these migrations are due to customers > outgrowing the JBoss capabilities and finding they need to take > advantage of services such as clustering, fail-over, and even the > portal and integration components. In many instances the support and > maintainability issues are also becoming a problem. _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org
