Last week, Oracle finially got the number that felt right to BEA to get them to walk away from their business. Sad to see BEA go... each additional player in the JEE camp is a welcome addition to the idea of choice and best fit. I'm really writing because I read an article that sums up the situation AMAZINGLY well, and not because I have any insight at all as to what will happen to OC4J, or Oracle, as this change moves its way through the system.
This article on TheServerSide is a letter from GigaSpaces to its BEA Weblogic customers.. informing them of the evil that has come down upon them... and it's 100% true.. minus the advertising part of it. So, for those of you that are on OC4J and have a choice to switch, or are using JDeveloper to do contract work and suggest your clients use OC4J.. read this.. and think about those decisions again.
The people I work with, overall, don't seem to share this vision.. and well.. neither does my client. But, its a fact... heavy weight clustering and tooling is the WRONG way to do enterprise development... and the private industry is quickly realizing it...
Also, in other news of big companies forcing little guys to do what they wish; microsoft is FORCING the IE7 update to all systems... meanwhile, I dont think many of the websites I've worked on have javascript that'll work on IE7... thats a lot of retooling because someone doesn't want to support or give out the code to the browser that was originally integrated on.
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