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by Marc Logemann.
Original Post: reply to Adam Bien blog entry "If I Were Sun"
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Unfortunately i cant link to the direct entry URL because the blog system shows http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/$entry.link as link URL which cant work of course. Furthermore my comment, which is also the content of this blog entry, was marked as spam. Another no-go of his blog system. A suggestion for Adam: Maintain a *good* own blog system (JRoller cant be that bad) or forget about self hosting and use an external service.
Here is my comment on his post:
Hi,
to your "if i were sun" list.
1) java branded workstation? Come on. No one needs that. Most java developers are quite intelligent people with their very own prerfered hardware + OS. No one needs java powered emblems on hardware. Besides this, really smart developers use macs anyway (ok the last part is not that serious)
2) This is a smart suggestion. Not a killer but a solid approach to make money. My company would perhaps use services like that when testing software on existent glassfish installation servers.
3) The fact is, as a java developer you dont care much about hardware or OS. For testing purposes, a SUN is just overkill. We have a big no-name custom server which runs many VMs for development purposes. No need for sun or ibm hardware whatsoever.
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Now my suggestion for Sun:
Make software products that make people spend money on. Glassfish Pro Edition or something like that. Companies like BEA or IBM succeed over years in selling appServers. Sun failed here big time. With Glassfish they could start again and try to make profit besides of support contracts.
Do the same with Netbeans. There is a market for commercial IDEs as you can see with IDEA or MyEclipse. To me Eclipse or netbeans are not good enough, so i spend money on IDEA. How about a Netbeans Pro with smart stuff like extended Spring or JPA features...
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