Re: And so it continues...

[Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron,

You forgot COBOL.

Trevor


On 1/3/08 5:21 PM, "Aaron Bartell" <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > EGL is NOT a "bolt-together" language and really has nothing to do with
> the Open Source mash-up mentality.  You're the one who tied those concepts
> together.
>
> EGL utilizes the following technologies to come up with an end result:
> - HTML (governed by W3C)
> - CSS (governed by W3C)
> - Javascript (Netscape/Mozilla?)
> - JSP spec/implementation (Sun)
> - JSF spec (Sun). IBM provides their own implementation here.
> - JDBC spec (Sun)
> - EGL WYSIWYG (Eclipse)
> - XML (governed by W3C)
>
> How is that not a mash-up of open source?  I would say EGL is a product of a
> group of IBM engineers using OSS to their benefit.  Sure they have a lot of
> proprietary code built in there, but the basis mostly resides in the OSS
> realm.  This is a fundamental difference between the software stack for EGL
> vs. green screen.  Not necessarily a bad difference as they each have their
> strengths and weaknesses.
>
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com