On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 12:36 -0600, Bryan Sant wrote: > * No vedor-lockin - can an enterprise migrate to another vedor (or OSS > solution) easily?
This one is an interesting one. Although there are lots of j2ee compliant containers and servers, it's all, under the hood, Sun Java. So you can pick whatever vendor you want, so long as it is Sun. Obviously there are now finally VMs that can run Java bytecode that aren't from Sun*, such as IBM, or even GCJ, and eventually we'll have a full OSS system. At which point J2EE finally will fit this definition of "enterprise-class" that you mention. I think that when most market- speakers talk of this "vendor lock-in" thing, they are referring to underlying hardware/OS platform. However it is definitely worth remembering that the Java platform itself does is one vendor. Michael * No blackdown doesn't count. > > -Bryan > .-----------------------------------. > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > `-----------------------------------' -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .-----------------------------------. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `-----------------------------------'
