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<<  Friday, September 20, 2002  >> The 39 steps BEA claimed recently that "Hello world" is a 5-step procedure in WebLogic Workshop, versus a 28-step procedure in WebSphere Application Developer. IBM, of course, rebutted. Now Graham Glass points to another voice challenging BEA: my friend iyad jabri decided to post an open letter to BEA's latest claims about productivity tools. pretty gutsy. i hope it pays off. his company's product looks pretty awesome: http://www.intelliun.com [what's next?] Here's an anecdote from the hallway, between sessions at InfoWorld's Web services conference. I was chatting with a CTO and a VC. Both told me they've never seen a buyer's market like this one. Vendors are being expected to trot out their wares and perform in bakeoffs. Buyers have the time and inclination to shop slowly and carefully. When the upturn comes, the CTO and VC told me, IT consumers will be a lot smarter and better-informed than they were during the tulip craze. If they're right, marketing bluster alone won't drive many sales in the current climate.   XML scripting Here's a nifty XML scripting idea, by way of Collaxa's Blog (thanks, Edwin): Several companies have been collaborating to create a technology we call native XML scripting to do just that. BEA is the first to include native XML scripting in their products, but you will be seeing a lot more of it. In fact, ECMA plans to include it in future versions of the popular ECMAScript language (a.k.a. JavaScript). BEA Dev2Dev Cool. Six months ago, I noted that Adam Bosworth was thinking about this idea: We need a language that can natively support XML as a data type and yet can gracefully integrate with the world of objects (Java or otherwise) and can take advantage of the self-describing nature of XML by supporting querying of its own variables. This language as used by humans will look like a programming language, not an XML grammar. This is the language we will use to convert from one XML format to another. This is the language we will use to synthesize complex XML documents for multiple sources and Web services. This is the language we will use to mediate between the world of XML messages and the world of Java or C# processes. [XML Magazine] I guess he wasn't just idly speculating!   Sun's white-box Linux desktop Sun's Jonathan Schwartz closed yesterday's conference with a pitch for Sun's white-box Linux desktop. On the Linux versus Windows cost-comparison chart, there was an empty space which indicated that it costs nothing to manage a Linux desktop. I'll grant that a Windows PC is, like a boat, a kind of hole in the water that you pour money into -- and that most of that money goes for support. And I've always thought that desktop Linux's best hope was to float that boat. But...zero-cost support? That's not what Tim O'Reilly's informal survey of OS X switchers suggests: Switching from Windows only (1) Switching from Windows to OS X for personal use, but still using Windows at work (2) Switching from dual-boot Windows/Linux, or separate machines for the two operating systems (2) Switching from Linux (5) Here's a typical comment: "It's just like having a Linux or FreeBSD box, except it all Just Works." The other puzzling aspect of the strategy was its notion of platform. It's Linux. No, wait, it's Mozilla, GNOME, and Evolution. No, wait, it's Java -- you know, the Java platform on which Linux, Mozilla, GNOME, and Evolution were built. I'm so confused.

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