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Weblog:   The Pet Store.... Again
Subject:   Good points
Date:   2002-11-05 07:27:38
From:   rwinston
Hear hear. At the end of the day, all zealotry and pointless flaming aside, its only people like Ted, who have an extensive knowledge of the technologies 'on both sides of the fence', aho can make informed decisions. I think when it comes to FUD, bigotry, and downright erm, untruths, you need look no further than Sun for some shining examples. I'm a Java/J2EE fan, I'm also a fan of quite a few of Microsoft's technologies. I can't comment on .NET, as I know next to nothing about it at the moment, but I'm sure I will evaluate it at some point. The point I'm making is that as developers, we need to be informed, impartial, and willing to constructively recognize deficencies in our chosen technologies. To quote:


"....would somebody *PLEASE* step up, write the PetStore the way the community thinks it should be written (using stored procs, no EJB, whatever), so we can kill that original implementation and be done with it? If it's not written the way it should be, then Sun ....deserve what they get when they get crucified in benchmarks."


PS unlike Ted, I am a HUGE fan of Open Source. I however cannot understand the slavering zealotry which plagues sections of the Open Source community.
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  • Excellent Points, Gutsy Author
    2002-11-07 05:20:01  jonogden [Reply | View]

    Too bad so many 'true believers' out there see fit to attack the motives and the intelligence of anyone who dares to question the perfection of Java. They are the language's own worst enemy (not MSFT) since they will refuse to believe they have been out-done until the work dries up.
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