Monday, October 28, 2002

Pet Shop 2.0: Java vs. .NET. "My reading of this report is that .NET kicked Java's hinder in every single measure, from through-put and responsiveness to lines of code and lines of configuration required to build and run the app." [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News] That seems to be most other .NET bloggers reading of it (as well as others), so you have to start to wonder why some companies and IT shops continue to choose badly in the face of a lot of overwhelming and accumulating evidence. Not only do you get constrained to one language (well C with JNI for legacy) but you get to write more of it, have less features, less flexibility, and oh yah, by the way, its going to run a whole lot slower. It starts to become "Doctor, why does it hurt so much when I bang my head aggainst the wall" and "Well, stop doing that."  7:40:57 PM

Beta release CADViewer. We have been very busy these last couple of days with the Beta-release of our CADViewer for Groove. The CADViewer is the first product based on the Suite75 Shared Viewing Framework and offers real-time shared viewing of DWG/DXF files within a Groove Shared Space. This Framework is designed for a variety of viewers to be used within Groove. Any viewer based on this framework will have functionality like:  Fast and secure standalone or realtime shared file-viewing Auto discovery of all viewable files within a Groove Shared Space.  Save comments to a Discussion Tool Save current view to a Pictures Tool Save current view to a Sketchpad Tool Print the current view to any printer In the near future we will release more commercial tools based on this framework to collaborative view and comment the majority 2D/3D CAD file-types and other commonly used non-CAD fileformats. If you're interested in taking the beta for a testdrive, please contact me and if you provide us with your feedback during the betaperiod you will receive one free copy the moment we release the official version :-) [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog] 7:36:02 AM