Ken Cavanaugh wrote:
> charlie hunt wrote:
>> I love this quote, "They're (Sun) a completely different beast
>> driven by marketing rather than engineering"
>>
>> So, Jeanfrancois, how much marketing help have we gotten from Sun
>> corporate marketing ? :-D
>>
>> I'd gladly take a performance challenge from MINA. :-P
>>
> I'm also finding the discussion about flexibility/generality vs.
> performance to be interesting.
> I think the apache folks think that a tradeoff must be made between
> the two, and they
> are on the flexibility/generality side, while we are on the
> performance side. I think this
> is a false dichotomy: given the flexibility of Java, we generalize for
> flexibility in the api
> (and remember that simple things should be easy!)
> and specialize for performance in the implementation as needed. I see
> little reason to
> think that we can't have both. This is exactly the problem we have
> been dealing with
> in the ORB for years.
>
> Most of this will come down to NIH and each side preferring the APIs
> they have grown
> accustomed to.
> Ken.
+1
charlie ...
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