> From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 09:19, Alef Arendsen wrote: > > So what's the score? DotNet is the new Microsoft initiative, and - as > always - they've perfectly imitated J2EE and have had a good look at all > J2EE's pitfalls. USed J2EE as a basis and extended it in a very very very > good way (ok, little bit devil's advocate here). So maybe that's the next > thing. > > > > Yeah, the catch is being tied to their unstable insecure platform.
There is a great quote attributed to Winston Churchill: Woman to Churchill: "You're drunk!" Churchill to Woman: "And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning." Unstable and insecure is fixable. Proprietary is not. There are projects like Mono which offer a platform not required to answer to any single corporation. You cannot say the same for the J2SE, and vastly less so the J2EE. Not that I'm suggesting everyone in Jakarta should drop Java and start .NET development, but don't harbor illusions about the technology you're using. It serves the interests of Sun, not "the community". Jeff Schnitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
