Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle

Re:Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle by InclinedPlane on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:04AM (#1978080)

More than that, for typical distributed "enterprise-y" type stuff (a crap-ton of services that call each other) MS's stuff is generally superior. Creating a typical WSDL based service on Java using Spring requires a lot more work than with .Net, and all of the nice little features (like tools for manually calling a web-service API) are built-in.

Unless you are a big enough company to be able to roll your own infrastructure tools to make use of linux's advantages or have very significant scale requirements the cost difference is unlikely to be huge (much of the cost will be operations labor anyway) and the service and support backing of MS is a significant boon in the enterprise world.

LLVM and Javascript are contenders but they aren't platforms yet, although I think they will see a ton of use in web apps and web services, especially outside the enterprise.

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Re:Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle by kaffiene on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @03:52AM (#1978470)

Bullshit. I work at a .NET shop who had to interoperate with another company developing WSDL based webservice in Java. They could do a whole bunch of stuff that we weren't able to do because Visual Studio didn't support all the stuff that they could do with their open tools (case in point: field level encryption - supported in Visual Studio Pro 2005 but none of later versions of VS that we use)

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Re:Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle by eftpotrm on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @09:07AM (#1979028)

I'll freely admit I have limited and dated experience of .NET use of WSDLs, but I remember it making me almost cry with frustration. Really, really grim.

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