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

[Michael Bacarella]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:29:17PM -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote:
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> 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.

If you show Google that you can get 1,000,000 transactions a second
against a beige box PC you might just get hired.  If you show it to
any other large company they're going to say "yeah, but what about
standard object interchange?"