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Virtualization takes the cost and complexity out of IT, and can even help us reduce the CO2 footprint. IDC has stated that the virtualization services market alone is going to reach $11.7 billion by 2011 and in general this technology, which has been around for a good number of years, seems suddenly to be on everyone's mind.
In short, Virtualization is fast becoming a key requirement for every server in the data center, enabling increased workloads in server consolidation projects, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data centers, application re-hosting and compatibility, and high-availability partitions.
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Tabby Rasah wrote: Is the Middleware Company really independent? I think they're a subsidiary of Veritas--not that they are a platform vendor, but you have to figure there's some cross-interests there.
Al wrote: This so-called "leaked" report is as questionable as the .NET/J2EE comparison including the claim that even with the inexperienced J2EE developers, they were still more productive than the experienced .NET developers using WebSphere. C'mon, SysCon, stop wasting our time and perpetuating this debate publishing this dribble. You might as well be publishing articles to pursuade people to change their political leanings.
Edu wrote: Chris, it doesn't metter what 'staff' you like more. It metter what technology is more suitable for which task. I would like to see someone who had made Windows drivers with Java?
Mario, there isn't a question about Microsoft trying to strengthen .NET position in 'MS native' market. MS try to put .NET based solutions into J2EE market. This is why they participate in this study. This is a MS way marketing.
Consultant wrote: I find it hard to believe that a J2EE developer worth their weight would design their own framework, not use struts, not use connection pooling, and not at least use session EJB's in the design for this application. There's no benchmarking of the databases, and you're telling me that the results are not based on stress tests? What industry do they work in? I've consulted and assisted with implementations at many Fortune 500 companies, and I can tell you that the tests were not anything like what happens in the real world.
Mario wrote: It is amazing how Microsoft is so scared of J2EE that they have to cheapen themselves by taking part in the study. If .Net is as great as they profess it to be, I am sure that more companies would be using it.
It is just like politics - say anything to ruin your competitor and the common un-educated folks will believe it.
With the money that Microsoft has to throw around it is amazing that everything we use is not running some kind of Microsoft OS on it.
Software Architect wrote: You cannot take any of these comparisons seriously. The fact that the J2EE project was developed by non-experts is a plus in my eyes since most projects do not have so called "experts" on it. I never take development time comparisons seriously either since that is always dependent on the team and the project. So which tools were used are almost irrelevant to me. In fact, any platform dependent on a specific tool for development is a poorly designed platform. More important is how the platform performs, so the fact that the IBM JVM was not used is probably the most valid complaint. The fact that the DAAB was used for the .NET and has to be downloaded is a petty complaint. IBM has tons of tools downloadable from their site to aid development as well. I'd like to see a test where two non-expert teams can pick whatever tools they like, use any generally available software from the ven...
WebSphere Lover wrote: Sure Microsoft should sponsor the report like they did and the clowns at TMC should announce the results as an independent study. Way to go Chris
Chris wrote: Sounds like the old, it's not the tools its the programmer who uses them issue. True enough in most circumstances I suppose. Then again, I have no doubt that an newbie coder could be productive with .Net in a much shorter time. I love the Java stuff tools and mindset, but the .Net stuff is by far much easier to develop with.
Mike Driver wrote: The damage is done now, even if the report is discredited.
IBM could respond by sponsoring it's own impartial study using experts from both sides of the arguement. But that would probably end up being biased in favour of Websphere/J2EE.
It would take a truely impartial group to create a truely impartial study... but where is the incentive.
malcolm davis wrote: I read the Middleware report, and the details. After investing a great deal of time in both J2EE and .NET, I knew the report was serious flawed.
The TMC report also led you to believe that they had invited IBM developers. The Middleware had demonstrated that it is nothing more than a political hack. Unfortunately, damage is done when reports like TMC are published at legitimate sites.
What should happen now? Legitimate sites should ban printing anything from TMC, even if TMC has genuine news. The only way to kill a political hack is to cut its output venues.
Matthew Quinlan wrote: Interesting. It is easy to throw stones at any benchmark or comparison study. However, it is a much more difficult task to actually design and conduct one. While the funding by Microsoft is clearly a conflict of interest, I would expect that even a truly independent comparison would generate many of the same inconsistencies. The fact is that these kinds of comparisons must take into account so many variables that have their own tradeoffs (and no clear corresponding variable on the competitor's platform) that the margin of error is larger than the absolute results.
This type of analysis is therefore relegated to for-hire companies (e.g. TMC) who provide fodder for customer executives who wish to defend their existing or upcoming technology decisions.
Alexander wrote: The whole buzz in this article mainly shows one thing - it doesn't matter what tool and environment is used, the question is who is using it.
Use bad programmer and you get bad application.
However one more thing is also evident. The dot.com boom dropped to the market a lot of half baked programmers and most of them know the Java as their only tool.
Scott Simmons wrote: I find it a very large concern when an "independent" group (The Middleware Company) professes vendor neautrality and then publishes a report which would not even qualify for an undergraduate Computer Science class homework assignment -- it is clear that they are not acting in the best interest of the market when they publish these types of reports. It could be said that they are only harming themselves (as per limiting their credibility) but I take exception as lead decision makers depend on these types of reports to make critical business decisions. Makes you wonder about how the report has been funded ... and brings to mind the ongoing LINUX versus Windows ramblings that Microsoft is pushing. You would think that Microsoft should be spending money on fixing the huge number of security glitches (that still remain after SP2) versus engaging it what looks like a well-funded attack camp...
Heath wrote: Yes lets make sure all comparisons are actually equal. The Vendor interests must be taken into account in a way that enables true best practise and (as close as possible to) real-world deployment.
By the same token, vendor interests that unnecessarily bias against others must be avoided or, if that is not possible, clearly identified and 'costed' into the comparisons.
I wonder how TMC would feel about an orgainsation committing itself to a big project based on their 'test' results with open slather to sue them for each discovery that was contrary to their findings? That is the real test.
(I'm not troubled by the '3 fonts', but your link to Table 2 for the Microsoft costings is wrong - it points to the IBM Table. It is important to see the MS details as well)
sa wrote: Completely ignoring the content of the article, why do you have to publish this with so many fonts?!?! There has to be at least 3 sizes and two faces in use throughout this article. I expected better....
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SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal announced today its first annual 
Two of the biggest launches in Rich Internet Application history took place in 2007/2008 when Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in February '08 and Microsoft launched Silverlight (September '07). At the 6th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo in October SYS-CON Events is delighted to be...
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Mike Neil is general manager for virtualization strategy in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft. Mike is focused on the delivery of the Windows virtualization technology, including Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server and Virtual PC 2007. Mike also directs the tec...
A standard from OASIS called Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) is used so portlets can be decoupled from a portal. In part one (JDJ, Volume. 13, issue 3) of this article, we introduced the relevant standards and specifications and then demonstrated WSRP's capabilities by consumin...
From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown ...
