Re: Java vs .NET was: RPGIII compiler vs Visual Basic

[Ryan <whiterabbit1@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/20/05, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Walden H. Leverich
> >
> > Because it's the flavor of the month. This is perhaps the one major
> > difference between the java world and the .NET world. In .NET we have
> > one centralized standards-setting, direction-setting behemoth, it's
> > called Microsoft.
> 
> And the direction changes completely every four or five years.
> 
> 
> > You can see that in the iSeries world too. As great as the machine may
> > be you have to admit, it's an extremely small install-base relative to
> > Windows, good-bad-indifferent, you can't argue the numbers.
> 
> What numbers would this be?  Maybe desktops, but not business
> application servers.  Where are you getting your numbers about the
> number of companies running their business on SQL Server?  File servers
> maybe, or email.
> 
> IBM leads the database server market, largely due to DB2 on the iSeries.
> Oracle is a close second, and is continuing to make inroads in Windows
> while at the same time moving people to Linux rather than Windows.
> Microsoft is third, with slowing growth.
> 
> And even these numbers are skewed because a larger company may have its
> primary database on the iSeries with ancillary data of some kind on a
> SQL Server box, and that shows up as a win for both, whereas a Mom and
> Pop shop running SQL Server for 10 employees is unlikely to have an
> ancillary iSeries.  My guess is that a study showing the percentage of
> mission critical data stored on each server would show DB2 and
> especially DB2/400 with an even bigger lead.
> 
> Not only that, but open source and low cost databases like MySQL will be
> replacing SQL Server at the low end.

OMG!  ROTFL  With the advent of that latest and greatest, subselects
and stored procedures MySQL leaps to where any widely used
commercially available relational database has been for years.

> 
> 
> > So, why is
> > there a SINGLE "official" way to go to the web in the windows world
> > (ASP.NET) while there are so many in the iSeries world (JSP,
> WebFacing,
> > iSeries Access for Web, HATS, CGI, CGIDEV2, screen-scrapers, etc.)
> 
> There is a single, official way to get to the web on the iSeries: JSP on
> WebSphere.
> 
> Joe
> 
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