[The Java Posse] Re: Why don't people use Java 6 in production? Maybe this is why...

2009-05-12 Thread Casper Bang
Then again, from a purely business/economical perspective that approach makes a lot of sense. And up until recently, Moore's law would provide scalability as a function of time; cheaper, more predictable and less risky than tinkering with the deployed software. Also worth noting, although Sun wou

[The Java Posse] Re: Why don't people use Java 6 in production? Maybe this is why...

2009-05-12 Thread Christian Catchpole
And the general attitude of some ops people (and managers, and who ever else has influence) is, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to t

[The Java Posse] Re: Why don't people use Java 6 in production? Maybe this is why...

2009-05-12 Thread Tim
I'd say a more likely reason a lot of companies have not shifted to haven't shifted to Java 6 on the server is that ~35% of the app server market belongs to IBM Websphere, the latest version of which only supports Java 1.5. Most large Enterprises just can't go to 6. On May 10, 8:54 pm, Mark Derr

[The Java Posse] Re: Why don't people use Java 6 in production? Maybe this is why...

2009-05-11 Thread Jess Holle
Outside of Grizzly, which is based on NIO, of course, I think many folk have avoided NIO entirely due to various items like this. -- Jess Holle John Wright wrote: > We've been using it in a production environment for 2 years with no > issues. > > Its much faster and very stable. We've used it on

[The Java Posse] Re: Why don't people use Java 6 in production? Maybe this is why...

2009-05-11 Thread John Wright
We've been using it in a production environment for 2 years with no issues. Its much faster and very stable. We've used it on Windows and Linux. We don't use NIO though. On May 11, 7:07 am, Eric Angel wrote: > A company I worked for a few years made the switch to java 6 and haven't had > any i

[The Java Posse] Re: Why don't people use Java 6 in production? Maybe this is why...

2009-05-10 Thread Eric Angel
A company I worked for a few years made the switch to java 6 and haven't had any issues. Granted, it's a web app that isn't disk IO heavy. We made the switch because the performance improvements offered by java 6. On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Mark Derricutt wrote: > Hey all, > > A number