My financial analysts can beat up your financial analysts and my benchmarkers can beat up your benchmarkers.
;-) On 7/17/03 4:40 PM, "Thomas L Roche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -- Andrew C. Oliver http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI http://jakarta.apache.org/poi For Java and Excel, Got POI? _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org
