Comments on: People Just Don’t Get It http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2005/11/01/people-just-dont-get-it.html 20 minutes into the future... Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:19:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jack Herrington http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2005/11/01/people-just-dont-get-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-1548 Jack Herrington Tue, 01 Nov 2005 21:33:22 +0000 http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2005/11/01/people-just-dont-get-it.html#comment-1548 <p>Yeah, it's definitely frustrating to be ahead of the curve on these things. But it's also heartening to see people moving in the right direction with Rails and other types of technologies.</p> <p>One of the major things to learn from the Java disaster is to put company white papers in perspective. Sun was vicious in it's attack of Perl in the early days of Java on the server. Slamming Perl left and right with gutless and baseless attacks, when Perl was completely defenseless. Perl had no multi-million dollar marketing group defending it. So we all need to look at these companies and their PR groups in the light of technical reality and not their PR spin.</p> Yeah, it’s definitely frustrating to be ahead of the curve on these things. But it’s also heartening to see people moving in the right direction with Rails and other types of technologies.

One of the major things to learn from the Java disaster is to put company white papers in perspective. Sun was vicious in it’s attack of Perl in the early days of Java on the server. Slamming Perl left and right with gutless and baseless attacks, when Perl was completely defenseless. Perl had no multi-million dollar marketing group defending it. So we all need to look at these companies and their PR groups in the light of technical reality and not their PR spin.

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