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

[Michael Bacarella]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:53:09AM -0400, Felix Shnir wrote:
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> >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?
> 
> Err, we're getting off topic.  If you like me to keep on citing examples,
> J2EE has roughly ~30 different apis, JNDI being only one.  As stated
> previously, Java is "more enterprise" because it has those API ready to be
> used in the context of the application you are building and supporting
> infrastucture to have it ready to go when needed.  PHP doesnt.  Python
> doesnt.  Ruby doesnt.  End of statement.  The only thing LAMP stack has on
> Java is the fact that it is more reachable by lower to middle level
> businesses and developers thus making it more mainstream.

Nicely integrated package of stuff that really large organizations care about?

Got it.