On 8/10/05, Jonathan Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fantastic. Meanwhile, Microsoft continues to eat Sun's lunch by > providing solutions that
The market statistics I've show would suggest otherwise. Dispiste you so predictably falling for the Microsoft marketing machine, and assuming that because you see so many flash advertisements for .NET that it must be doing well, .NET has been a significant flop for Microsoft. Microsoft even admits this. Not that .NET is a bad platform in and of itself, but poeple are NOT adopting it like MS expected. The market demand is grossly weighed in favor of Java. Granted this doesn't mean that Sun is the primary bennefactor. IBM, BEA, Oracle, JBoss and others are all doing better in the market than Sun. But Sun is not Java. Sun is a member of the Java Community Process board, and they happen to make a high-quality implemenation of the Java specification... But so does GNU, and IBM, and Apache is working on one to rule them all. I guess I know where you're coming from. MS is typically a safe bet for market domination; however, in the case of enterprise software, MS is getting slapped around by Java vendors big time. *QUEUE* Linux/UNIX lovers to rally behind Java and squash MS's efforts in this market segment for good... But no... The slashdot crowd is so out of touch with market forces, they'd rather bash Java in favor of name-your-favorite-obscure-technology that will never stand a chance against MS like Java does. > Ahh, the price of simplicity... Amen. Simplicy is king. The solution to any problem should be as simple as possible. The key is "as possible". Visual Baisc is simple, but it's not *possible* to meet the needs of enterprise apps with it. I would say that Struts/JSF+Axis+Spring+Hibernate is the most simple yet capable approach to enterprise software available. -Bryan .-----------------------------------. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `-----------------------------------'
