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Java and .Net both a disaster: research By Angus Kidman, ZDNet Australia 15 November 2002 Still trying to decide whether your enterprise development architecture should be based around Sun's Java or Microsoft's .NET? Perhaps you should be more worried about whether either of them is going to work at all. To date, around 70 percent of initial Java implementations have been unsuccessful, according to new research from Gartner Group. "An inordinately large number of large-scale Java projects have been failures," said Mark Driver, Gartner research director for Internet and ebusiness technologies. However, Microsoft shouldn't draw any comfort from those figures...

Pet vs Pet: .NET 'trounces' Java By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 10/29/2002 at 22:57 EST Java expert The Middleware Company has optimized Sun's showcase J2EEPet Store application, and reckon it still runs like a dog. Or in some cases, like a dog with a kennel tied to its hind legs: by refusing to function at all. Sun slammed the tests, which conceal important information, although the testers acknowledge that app servers from different vendors are being used, without naming them - but conceded that on low end hardware Wintel will perform faster. Both platforms were tested on Xeon-based...

The Middleware Company has performed a new comparison of the performance and scalability of J2EE and .NET based on the familiar Pet Store application. This time, the Middleware Company has re-coded the J2EE Petstore and optimized the implementation for performance. In the comparison, a new implementation of the .NET Pet Shop has also been tested. This implementation uses dynamic SQL instead of stored procedures, and like the J2EE equivalent is an object-oriented, logical 3-tier implementation following Microsoft's recommended design pattern for building scalable Web applications. In addition, the new performance and scalability comparison includes new comparative performance data on .NET...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/31/02 - Sulaymanyah, Barda Qaraman, Baghdad, Solo BREAKING: PROTALIBAN TERRORIST RELEASED BREAKING: ISLAMIC TERRORIST TAKEN BREAKING: BALI PERP SKETCHES RELEASED THE GOOD, THE BAD, and THE UGLY Sulaymanyah, Barda Qaraman, Baghdad, Islamabad, Pakistan, Azam Tariq of the pro-Taliban Sunni Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan party released Solo, Java, Abu Bakar Bashir taken to Jakarta ========= Sulaymanyah, free Iraq ========= THE GOOD In Sulaymanyah, free Iraq, controlled by the PUK, women fight for their freedom. ========= Barda Qaraman ========= In Barda Qaraman, ~22 miles south of Sulaymanyah, free Iraq, controlled by the PUK are refugees who...

Islam preaches love, but the young warrior of God has hate-filled eyes. Dressed in the clothes of a soldier, he stands at attention, barring the way to the hospital bed of his leader, Abu Bakar Bashir, the man many believe is behind the Bali bombing. There are dozens of genuine Indonesian Army soldiers here in the Central Javanese city of Solo, wearing uniforms and carrying automatic rifles. But they are not in charge. Instead, control is in the hands, and at the whim, of this young warrior and his cohorts, delivered in shifts from al-Mukmin, the Islamic fundamentalist boarding school...

      Earthquake Bulletin Date-Time 2002 10 10 10:50:20 UTC Location 1.71S 134.16E Depth 10.0 kilometers Magnitude 7.1 Region IRIAN JAYA REGION, INDONESIA Reference 180 miles (285 km) S of Manokwari, Irian Jaya, Indonesia Source USGS NEIC The following is a release by the United States Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center: A major earthquake occurred about 180 miles (285 km) south of Manokwari or 770 miles (1245 km) north-northeast of Darwin, Australia at 4:50 AM MDT today, Oct 10, 2002 (7:50 PM local time in Indonesia). A PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE OF 7.1 WAS COMPUTED FOR THIS EARTHQUAKE. The magnitude...

SURAKATA (JP): About 1,500 militant Muslims from various regions in Java and Sumatra attended a mass anti-U.S. rally in Surakata on Wednesday and declared they were ready to wage a jihad against Washington. Secretary-general of the Front for the Defenders of Islam (FPI) Ahmad Sobri Lubis said that the rally was held to protest allegations by members of the international community that the al-Qaeda network was active in Indonesia and that Indonesian Islamic leader Abubakar Ba'asyir was involved with international terrorist networks. "We declared at the rally that Indonesian Muslims should never trust any statement from the U.S. government...

I need to download MSFT's Java Virtual Machine, build # 3805 or higher. It is no longer available on www.microsoft.com/java/vm/dl_vm40.htmIt is 5345 KB, initially made available on 3/6/02. If you have a working link for this DL, please post it. Thanks.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Just before closing arguments in its antitrust case, Microsoft delivered a broadside to one of its bitter software rivals, declaring Tuesday it will stop supporting Sun Microsystems' flagship product by 2004. Microsoft cited Sun's opposition in the case as the reason for the decision to remove support for Sun's Java programming language from future versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system. "The decision to remove Microsoft's Java implementation was made because of Sun's strategy of using the legal system to compete with Microsoft," Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan said in a statement. A Sun spokeswoman did not immediately return...

Q&A: Java creator Gosling says .Net falls short of expectations By Carol Sliwa (Mar. 29, 2002) SAN FRANCISCO -- Java creator James Gosling, a vice president and fellow at Sun Microsystems Inc., shared his views on Microsoft Corp.'s rival .Net development environment, its new C# (pronounced C-sharp) language and its promotion of Web services with Computerworld during this week's JavaOne conference. Q: Is there anything in the .Net architecture that you actually admire? A: [Long pause.] Chutzpah. Um [pause] boy. I guess I found it really disappointing. I mean, there had been all kinds of rumors and that about what...

SAN FRANCISCO--Programmers are on the front lines in the battle to keep Microsoft from taking over the standards that underlie the Internet, Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy told loyalists of Sun's Java software Tuesday. McNealy often criticizes Microsoft, whose popular Windows software ensures it a legion of supporting programmers. But during his JavaOne keynote speech, McNealy turned up the volume, saying the struggle is for nothing less than the future of humanity. "I need your help. Mankind needs your help," said a somber McNealy of efforts to secure Java's future. McNealy, somewhat more subdued than in many of his keynotes,...

Java is drawing a rising number of businesses and software developers but still must overcome major obstacles before its long-term success is assured--including roadblocks from the very people who support the programming language. Although recent studies show that Microsoft technologies are still the main languages used by software developers, Java is beginning to close the gap. According to a 2000 IDC study, 3 million people use C and C++ as their chief software language, followed by 2.3 million Visual Basic developers and 1.2 million Java programmers. And market research firm Evans Data has reported that more people are using Java...

One Runtime to Bind Them All (Available also as PDF)The .NET platform is a huge step forward if compared to Microsoft#146;s previous SDKs. Still, there is a long distance from marketing to reality. Just like Win32 / MFC / COM / etc. before it, .NET will compete with existing platforms (such as Java) for the leading position in the next generation of application developments. Microsoft has clearly elected J2EE as Enemy #1 to be defeated. Comparisons to Java technology are already popping from the .NET marketing found in Microsoft(-sponsored) websites and publicity. This focus is very odd as Microsoft tried...