Hi,
Michael J. Cannon wrote:
> Why Orion? Because from day-to-day, no matter how many CPUs, no matter what
> the BEA Sales Executive's outstanding Mercedes lease payment, no matter
> what...Orion is USD$1500 / physical server license for deployed applications
> and every developer seat is free...because IT management need never again
> sweat out BEA 'Assistance' shakedowns and audits...
Think of Corporate psychology as akin to social-victim psychology: why buy a
perfectly good pair of jeans that cost $20.00 when you can spend $200.00
and buy
the same pair of jeans from Calvin (coke up the nose) Klein? Why buy a
$3.00 dollar
bottle of simple detergent to wash your hair, when you can pay $55.00
for a bottle
of "shampoo" (if you please?) from Mistuh Calvin Klein or whoever?
Especially
if the money you're spending is "other people's money"?
And:
> "Application development, which is what people do with app servers, is a
> very technical thing. It requires experience and knowledge.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A good point! BUT I think J2EE is a technology that is heading for the
scrap heap
if it can't find a way to make itself FAR simpler and FAR easier to
program and
develop. J2EE is the Java Enterprise version of assembler! Which leads
to an observation
about Techo-psychology: why write an enterprise application in 2 hours
when you
have a technology that can guarantee you a job for four weeks, and be
understood by
almost no-one outside the Masonic Guild of J2EE Developers? Complete with
Overware and Underwear and Middleware and all Wrapped in UML and XML and
WhatTheHell?
;)
Freddo
