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

[Michael Bacarella]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:34:59PM -0400, Felix Shnir wrote:
> Err, there is a reason why java is considered enterprise. J2EE contains a
> lot of meat that neither PHP nor ruby with or without rails has.
> 
> Give me an example of JNDI tree or architecure in either?  Or EJB session /
> messaging?  or their respective server management across clusters?  Granted
> there is a right tool for each job, but "enterprise" in java is exactly the
> ability to do n-tier architecture with unlimited scalability.

It's hard to take you seriously when you say things like "unlimited scalability".

Maybe you meant (and I'm just repeating what I've heard) that you can simply
throw an unlimited amount of hardware at the problem and get more throughput,
no extra programmer time required?