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

[Michael Bacarella]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:13:58AM -0400, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> > > step beyond both DNS and LDAP, but has direct hooks (access API) into
> > > LDAP for example because while LDAP contains different data, the
> > > access structure is generally the same...
> > 
> > So, Java is more enterprisy because it has an OODMS?  Whereas PHP
> > developers might try to do the same thing with an RDBMS.  And we all
> > know how enterprisy THAT is?
> 
> You know better than that.  Its not rdbms vs oodbms - JNDI can use rdbms 
> for the backend. It is that perl/php doesn't have a *standard* interface 
> that middleware can implement and developers can use for object 
> interchange. Perl's "POE" is something that is similar to JNDI. PHP 
> doens't have anything like it.

Standard object interchange?  That's the deal breaker?

Are you kidding me?