Wednesday, October 30, 2002

Borland buys TogetherSoft Borland gets TogetherSoft for $185 million. The software maker says acquiring TogetherSoft will help Borland bolster its programming tools lineup. [CNET News.com] Consolidation is not only for the portal market: the tools market feels it too ! After Webgain, it's TogetherSoft's turn.   5:25:15 PM    comment []

Sam on J2EE vs .NET benchmark polemics Animal house. Point.  CounterPoint.  Almost as bad as those election campaign adds on television. [Sam Ruby] 2 links with opposite opinions about the recent J2ee vs .NET benchmark where .NET beats J2EE. It's the same kind of thing at stake as in election campaign: power ! 4:49:31 PM    comment []

Russel's .NOT rants justified by TSS "microsoft-sponsored" benchmark ? Not all of it. TMC J2EE REPORT PURE M$ FUD. Ahhhh... It seems that Rickard was on to the truth, thank goodness. He's put up a detailed rebuttal online pointing out the flaws in the report, and The Server Side has also posted more information on their forum, including this bit: * Was Microsoft involved in this, did they fund this, where were the tests done? Yes, Microsoft was certainly involved, as the paper describes. The Middleware Company approached Microsoft regarding performing such an experiment. Microsoft provided the lab, which was located in Seattle, funded the setup costs, and reimbursed us for expenses, including travel expenses. ... Suddenly my rantings are making sense, hey? (Crap, that's scary even to me.) -Russ [Russell Beattie Notebook] Mmm. It's well know that FUD's been MS' favorite tactics, and this TSS report seems to be exactly that. It disappoints me from the TSS people. Especially because it would be interesting to have a real balanced and independent benchmark performed and TSS was very well placed to provide it. I'd like to see a consultancy create one such benchmark. People like Accenture or Cap Gemini. Or some technical analysts, like the Patricia Seybold group. Too bas Sun, BEA andf IBM were not involved. Bah, benchmarks are often rigged anyway, and there's no standard benchmark in this area yet. Russel's rant make sense on one point: MS uses Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt tactics, and their marketing muscles are strong. But I still think that the java world should fight back by product excellence rather than adding more noise to the cacophony. 2:43:17 PM    comment []

Roy Fielding's Content Management company, Day, pushes for JSR 168 http://www.day.com/en/company/2002/jsr168.html Day, a Swiss content management company, hired Roy Fielding (the guy from W3C and Apache, who formalized REST) as Chief Scientist last february. It seems they participate in JSR 168 and fully understand its future impact. “JSR-168 support is an integral part of Day’s vision because it allows businesses to manage all their content where it resides,” said Roy Fielding, Chief Scientist, Day. “JSR-168 and JSR-170 represent the first steps toward establishing a layer of content services between Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems and Portal products.” The integration of the JSR-168 and JSR-170 standards provide true interoperability. Finally, new systems can be seamlessly connected with a company’s existing content management systems. Furthermore, engineers can focus their efforts on aligning software with JSR standards, instead of the myriad of other standards that have made EAI and Portals such popular industries. I need to take a closer look at their product. 9:08:52 AM    comment []