[oak perl] Andreessen says PHP suceeding over Java

[Michael Ruggiero]

Where I work, they are touting SOA, and say that "you won't need to
write any code... it'll be great." One illusion these technologies offer
is the idea that a "new" thing will sort of elimiate the need to write
code. We're investing in Oracle tools that are really expensive, but
managers really believe that, by moving icons around in a "studio,"
they'll create wonderful applications without touching dirty code.
Because it's "new."  It's really the worst kind of magical thinking. "It
sounds good; therefore it is good."

-----Original Message-----
From: oakland-bounces at pm.org [mailto:oakland-bounces at pm.org] On Behalf
Of Adrien Lamothe
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:57 PM
To: Oakland Perl Mongers
Subject: Re: [oak perl] Andreessen says PHP suceeding over Java


--- David Fetter <david at fetter.org> wrote:


> Marc Andreesen happened to be standing at the right place at the right

> time with Netscape.  He has since let his lottery ticket winnings go 
> to his head, as many of us might do when faced with the amount of 
> gratitude we would have to show in the face of unearned billions.
> 

Right on the mark. The illness you describe is quite common.

What Andreessen does is address the viability of "scripting languages"
for serious system development, and how said languages are marching
forward, while Java is "evolving" into a mass of goo. Ruby on Rails has
the potential to de-rail all the nonsense passing for "web services".
Now the industry is moving towards "SOA" (Service Oriented
Architecture.) Another case of "but wait, things will be different this
time, we promise. Just pony-up $10,000 per seat for our new SOA
development tool."

Unfortunately, most decision-makers listen to guys like Andreessen,
because they can't think for themselves and thus are really not doing
their jobs (another form of unearned wealth.)

- Adrien

"The revolution will not be televised. The monkeys will be removed from
the thrones and placed back into their cages."






		
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