Re: The demise of the Oracle professional?

In article <3d051772$0$233$cc9e4d1f_at_news.dial.pipex.com>, you said (and I quote):

> Having said that I'll predict that *nix shops will go j2ee and ms shops will
> go .net and the two will not coexist even though both 'adhere' to
> 'standards'. Web services will be shown up for the overhyped pipe dream that

Except for one interesting detail, at least in the Australian market:

• in the last 14 months the number of major new projects started with J2EE and/or Java has been NILL. Or very near to it.

And one more snippet, from many of my clients: they want to know if I'll still support them WHEN M$ releases .NET server stable enough and they DO their move to that architecture.

Ratio of .NET to J2EE so far in terms of short to medium term plans? About 10 to 1.

How's that for "J2EE, the platform of the future"?

Customers are not blind. Replacing one layer of expensive "expertise" with another is not cost-effective nor was it ever such. The darn thing is only effective in a very narrow market, it was never intended to be a horizontal architecture.

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Nuno Souto
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