Bloated Development Kit.
Yep, all you have to do is to download the .Net SDK and start hacking away. But wait, the <a href= "http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml">.NetFramework SDK is a 137,363,456 byte download. And that is not all, if you want to redistribute your .Net apps you'll also need to download the <a href= "http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/MSDN-FILES/027/001/829/msdncompositedoc.xml">.Net Framework Redistributable, another 21,827,584 bytes. And you thought the JDK was bloated!
The Andy Oliver report.
In other Andy news, Andy <a href= "http://www.trilug.org/%7Eacoliver/hackinglog.html">mentioned today on his Hacking Log the possibility of a joint venture with the Triangle Dot-Net Users Group and the Triangle Java Users Group: a Dot-Net vs. J2EE shootout. Now, that sounds like a fun meeting.
Theme experiments.
Incompetence and betrayal.
It has been a week now since the TSS published The Petstore Revisited, but
I am just now getting around to reviewing the story.
On Monday Oct. 28, 2002, The Server Side published (TSS) The Petstore Revisited.
This benchmark report compared Sun's example J2EE Petstore application
with some performance revisions added by TSS to a Microsoft written dot-Net
clone of the Petstore. Respected open source Java guru Rickard Oberg
quickly reviewed the report, found many flaws, and published a rebuttal the very
next day. Rickard updated his rebuttal with more information and links to
other's views throughout the week (but he missed Rafe's comments).
On Wednesday he was Slashdotted.
As the week progressed, the outcry continued, and the full story was revealed:
- the benchmark report was seriously flawed in many ways,
- the J2EE Petstore performance revisions done by TSS were inept at best,
- Microsoft paid TSS to do the benchmark,
- TSS is essentially a Microsoft business partner,
- and TSS worked with Microsoft to coordinate the dot-Net victory media spin.
If you are concerned about the relative performance of dot-Net and J2EE, read the Pet Shop Boys write-up at Larry O'Brien's Thinking In Dot Net weblog: