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

[Ajai Khattri]

mike at jurney.org wrote:
> The context of the discussion is the enterprisey nature of J2EE, and this
> is a major facet of it.  The J2EE set of APIs is defined, maintained,
> revised, and distributed by Sun.  In the large business world, this fact
> (not that it's Sun, necessarily, but that it happens this way at all)
> carries with it enormous credibility.  The point I'm trying to make is
> that, at least partly, it's the fact that you don't have to figure out how
> to put which projects together to get a certain kind of functionality
> which makes J2EE enterprisey.  I'm not trying to be snippy, I chose the
> name "junktrunk" to emphasize this point.


In other words "benevolent commercial entity overseeing Java" wins out 
over the open-source model (where noone is "in charge" to dictate how 
something should be pieced together and/or evolve"). Similar for Linux 
(where RedHat is considered "enterprisey"). But I also think this is 
partly perception/marketing - you only have to look at Google (mostly 
open-source based and they dont use any "enterprise" linux either) to 
see someone doing very well commercially.



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