Re: Solaris vs AIX

Casper H.S. *** <Casper.***@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Cydrome Leader <presence@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Hype and useless managers dreaming of being on the cover of IT week. Java
is garbage. It's not that horrible apps cannot be written in other ways,
but the "hey this is easy and faster" java approach just encourages a
mess.

Java is not about "easier and faster"; that would, at best, be a function
of an IDE.

Java is ubiquitous and is used for large applications; so it does
seem to serve its purpose.

You can write garbage in any language.

Nobody reboots a mainframe nightly, but restarting weblogic daily is not
considered all that absurd. That's really sad.

Poor application quality cannot be blamed on the language; ultimately,
it is short cuts in the development process caused by time-to-market
pressures which lead to lower stability levels.

Back to the IT managers that need synergy and to make an impact with b2b
java nosense in the first place.

If weblogic needs to be restarted every night then that's a bug which
needs fixing.

I'd love to see a java app that does anything that can run for years.

Bull*** hardware just wastes everybody's time. If you're downtime
optimized, go for it. Otherwise, there's no point. Does it really matter
how open a system is? Do you make your own PCI cards, and write your own
disk firmware? Probably not.

Granted, IBM and Sun can do fairly obnoxious things like make sure
standard drives don't fit in drive cages etc (some old RS/6000s), but in
the end you're better off using a supported disk than Corpsys
remanufacturered scraps that was $25 and has a 15 second warranty.

I think both Sun and IBM realize that standard components are the
way of the future (and the past, really); much across Sun's X4x00 line
is shared (few part numbers) or bog standard (disks).

It's not about the future, it's about what's cheaper for them. HP has
always been good about standarized disks, IBM hasn't.
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