Andy is coming to Belgium
June 4th, 2003
Andy states that he might come to Belgium, and even give a presentation. This makes me want to go, even if it was only to be able to put a face on this chain blogger.
On an unrelated note (discussing the Sun vs JBoss issue), he states
Suddenly, .NET is cheaper than J2EE.Perception not to be underestimated. I've heard at least one company state that they would go for .NET, because J2EE was too expensive for their business. While I didn't do any calculations on the matter, it amazed me. Apparently, they were developing some machinery that included an app server, and they would sell that machinery. So every machine would have to be licensed with one app server. And they perceived that they had to buy a full-scale J2EE compliant commercial package. But if you're into machines with only a couple of users per time, I would think that even a simple Tomcat would do. No licensing costs whatsoever. The point is: this another area where the Sun marketing machine is doing weird things, and achieves the exact opposite of what they want to achieve (sell!).
Moving right along...
April 21st, 2008 at 10:16 PM In a world with no open source Microsoft reigns as the price leader. Don't forget, it was Microsoft and Intel that made PCs, Servers, hell computers afordable. Sun sold Hondas for Lexus and Lotus prices. (having trouble translating this to European cars...but "normal-to-economy" at "cheaper-luxury" to "I've-only-seen-them-in-movies-expensive"). Thank god for Microsoft or there would only be 1000 programmers in the whole world.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:16 PM Oh and thanks! :-)