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I'm actually trying to read OC4J Expert Opinions right now but am witnessing how hard Oracle fails by their lack of uptime. I cant be the only one that cant get to their website. Anyway, I was going there because Shay Shmeltzer responded to this article on the new preview 11g release of Oracle's Development Environment, stating, "So how about reading what analysts like Gartner, Forrester and others have to say about this?".. which pisses me off because I don't know who Gartner and Forrester are...

But, alright, small think time, Isn't the point of a standards based server so that you could switch as you saw fit? Maybe OC4J is great for its session bean handling (just a stab.. I dont know what its great for) and you notice through a 'normal' test that it seems pretty damn stellar, wouldn't you switch, regardless of what anyone says? Am I the only one not understanding why a platform built out of the idea of simple integration has such a hard time of moving from server platform to server platform?

The project I'm on right now seems to have the idea that there is no reason to test the waters with other servers... even when other projects have to basically rewrite entire aspects of their projects just to deploy to OC4J... Isn't it worth a days work to see what the fuss is about.. why would there be 10 different JEE containers if they all were exactly the same?

And isn't it really a product of the operational requirements to pick the features of an application server that works? SNMP support, scaling to certain hardware limits, ease of use, ease of upgrading, ease of clustering, performance on SPECjAppServer, fitting to the architecture of the application(s) deployed on it. Is it crazy to expect my operations people to understand when I say JMS queue that they should know how this effects the deployment? the network? the server load? Certainly if I said Database they have an idea of how to make a production system work.. is Application Server any different?

Anyway, I'm just ranting now that I cant get to oracle.com.... OH! and wishing my ops people would actually have an interest in middle-tier/application server system architecture and rather than saying "you can switch application servers because we need training" they'd say "we really dont want to loose our oracle cluster management console" or "We've seen cpu loads drop by 10% with Tomcat over the current application server software, which reduces our heating & electricity costs by $200 a month and increases response times by a half second on each request during normal business hours.. lets switch."