Tuesday, October 29, 2002

You Win Some.... Carlos has an interesting post about my rantings, telling me I'm completely wrong about my assumptions of M$ Tech: -Russ [Russell Beattie Notebook] 7:32:18 PM    comment []

Peter Drayton goes to work for Microsoft Cogratulations Peter!. How amusing is this... Right when I decide to start a full frontal assualt on Microsoft and .Net on this blog is JUST when my old boss and blog-buddy Peter Drayton announces his big news: During the past couple of weeks I've made references to impending personal changes. The time has come to share some very exciting news (for me at least!) with the ~2 people who read this weblog on a regular basis :-). Starting November 4, I'm going to be joining Microsoft as a Program Manager in the CLR team, doing my bit to "ensure that the CLR remains the most innovative multi-language runtime in the industry". ... It's sort of cool that I know Peter. It's easy to imagine a faceless, nameless borg called Microsoft, but when you actually have been in contact with someone who's going to be actively developing the technology you've been ranting about, you get a little perspective. I'm still 100% pro Java and anti-Microsoft, but now I know they're not all devil spawn up in Redmond. ;-) And well, for future reference, everyone should my late night rantings on this blog with a grain of salt. Maybe a tablespoon... ;-) -Russ [Russell Beattie Notebook] A tablespoon it will be :-) This time coincidence between Russ' anti .NET rants and his pal going to work at Microsoft is fun to watch: weblogs are full of surprises :-) 3:41:39 PM    comment []

Good looking Swing apps Swing apps. I've been down on swing applications recently they always seem cluncky and ugly. Here's a couple I've seen recently that... [<big>kev's</big> catalogue of this and that.] This reinforces Jon Udell's recent comments about the renewed potential of java on the client for GUI apps. 2:03:18 PM    comment []

Russel touched a nerve with his .NOT rant DotNot Ranting Feedback and Backlash. Wow... there's too many comments out there on my pro Java/DotNot rantings. I just spent the last hour TRYING to paraphrase them into some sort of post, but I gave up. Here's a list of responses. (Russ suddenly sees the advantage of Trackback blogging...) ... -Russ [Russell Beattie Notebook] It seems like Russel touched a nerve with his .NOT rant :-) My favorite comments are: Dot Not and More Dot Not [Big Kev] Russel thinks sun should fight FUD with FUD. I disagree Sun don't need to get into a FUD war. It helps no one. All you get it both sides pointing to the FUD of the other side. Sun needs to We need Sun to be commited to building the java language through constant improvement and inovation (Sun needs to sell more boxes, that's what they do). The DotNet Rant [Niel Eyde] .Net rant rant [Cedric] Java vs .NET [Rafe Colburn]   1:33:52 PM    comment []

Sun to give away server software. The company introduces revamped application server software and a plan to offer a free version for Solaris, Windows and other operating systems. [CNET News.com] Sun's giveaway is intended to increase its share of the application server market. BEA Systems is the leader in the $2 billion market for application server software. But BEA's dominance in the market has begun to waver with increased competition from IBM and Oracle, which rank second and third, respectively, in the market overall. Sun ranks fourth with 7.9 percent market share, according to market researcher IDC.   9:05:34 AM    comment []