[Zope] Re: Java vs Zope

[Cliff Williams]

I was waiting for someone else to mention this and am only adding it 
because I haven't seen it yet. To answer you question "Why wold anyone 
use Java?" I present the following:

It's not always about the technology.

Outside of Fortune 1000 "america" we can debate the merits of differing 
techologies and experiment. (Example: at rezidew.net we wanted to know 
which would perform better for us a 486 133 or a pentium 60. We built a 
box and ran it "in production" for a month then pulled the harddrive out 
and plopped it into another box. Try doing that at a fortune 1000 
company) Companies are now in the mode of "managing risk" so if they 
have to use an inferior system (MS Exchange) to get that "exposure 
mitigation" they are looking for, that's what they'll do.

I've worked at banks that had "No Open Source" policies. When I pointed 
out that their IBM webservers were running Linux which is OpenSource 
they said "oh well it's IBM, we have an SLA with them". When I've 
rebutted that they could get the same from other companies for Open 
Source technologies; the reply was something like "what some dot-com 
that's going to disappear in 2 years?"

So it's not the "bits, bytes, methods, types, references, classes, 
instanciation" based answer you were probably looking for but it's true, 
at least in my experience.


David Johnson wrote:
> Good afternoon.  I am new to Zope and I am excited about its possibilities.
> We are an ASP and plan to use Zope to improve our development process.
> I see that many people use J2EE based environments.  Does anyone
> understand why?  Why would anyone use Java?  What am I missing?
> 
> We're ready to go forward with Zope but I fear I might be missing something.
> 
> Thanks for any opinions!
> 
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