I like to think about the early days of Java (pre J2EE) when Java was the hot technology but few folks had real line-of-business applications built in it (server-side). Lots of talk, lots of interest in the tech and folks with the degree, lots of smoke -- but no fire. Now J2EE is a defacto assumption for most enterprise apps I've been associated with (and more than one ASP or CF to J2EE migration). But it took a few years for the tech to mature *and* the core of the "art of programming J2EE applications" to develop.
So extending the analogy, I certainly think you'd be risking a project to go full-bore on .NET. It will take a year or so for the inevitable service packs, upgrades, etc, to come out, not to mention the new releases of BizTalk, SQL-Server, and the core .NET Server platform MS wants us all to run it on. (I mean c'mon, I'm just getting comfortable with Visual Studio.NET and now I get the release candidate of Visual Studio.NET 2003....) and more importantly, it will take a few folk bleeding to death out on the edge to get their experiences back to the masses about best practices. I do think the tech will be adopted faster than Java since there's a bigger core of Microsoft technology. But I also think that many of the ASP programmers are going to realize that they know less than they thought about programming when ASP.NET makes them actually declare variables, compile, etc. :) Thus the desire for knowledgeable *programmers* who also know .NET. As an aside, does anyone else find it ironic that Sun is moving Java closer to ASP (with JSP, tag libraries, etc) for ease of use while MS is moving ASP closer to the days of Java servlets, etc. for performance and reliability? JSP was easier because you didn't have to do all those out.println() sorts of things, just like ASP. Now in ASP.NET you're back to out.println().... The more things change.... Regards, John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/Transitionpoint [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Liotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 9:09 PM Subject: RE: SOT Does MS have a J2ee-certified or J2ee-compatible offering > It is a little early to say. Certainly Java has the lead now, but it has > been around a lot longer than .NET. However, the same thing could have > been said about Netscape not that long ago. I don't know who the smart > money is on, but my money is on Java. > > My prediction is that if the race gets close IBM will buy Sun. > > Matt Liotta > President & CEO > Montara Software, Inc. > http://www.montarasoftware.com/ > 888-408-0900 x901 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dick Applebaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 9:01 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: SOT Does MS have a J2ee-certified or J2ee-compatible > offering > > > > Matt > > > > Who's winning now? > > > > Who's the smart money on? > > > > TIA > > > > Dick > > On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 05:46 PM, Matt Liotta wrote: > > > > >> Does Microsoft play in this arena, or they going it alone with > their > > >> own competing offering? > > >> > > > Alone; it's J2EE vs. .NET. > > > > > > -Matt > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
