[nylug-talk] Why does "enterprise" imply "Java"?

[alex@pilosoft.com]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Ajai Khattri wrote:

> Dan Crosta wrote:
> > I was under the impression that "Enterprise" referred to the ability to
> > scale to multiple machines, N-tier architectures, load balancing,
> > distributing processing
> 
> You can do the same thing with PHP or Ruby on Rails. This tells me that
> either people dont know this or as usual its down to marketing BS.
Now now, let's not oversimplify things. I dislike java (and J2EE) as much
as the next guy, but, there's nothing in PHP or Ruby that remotely equals
to what J2EE can potentially provide.

You don't have built-in naming/messaging/security/session management/deployment
etc. 

-alex