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Roller update.

FreeRoller seems to have stabilized, we've fixed a bunch of <a href= "http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&decorator=printable&pid=10000&fixfor=10013&mode=hide&start=0&tempMax=1000">bugs, and I've branched Roller 0.9.6 so we can start with Roller 0.9.7 dev in the main line. I'm planning on releasing Roller 0.9.6.3 tomorrow.

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Rotor 1.0.

Sam Gentile announced the release of Rotor 1.0 today. Rotor is a Microsoft implementation of the Dot-Net Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and C# that is released in source code form for Windows XP, Mac OSX, and FreeBSD. Note that the Rotor <a href= "http://msdn.microsoft.com/MSDN-FILES/027/002/097/ShSourceCLILicense.htm">license is NOT open source. If you want an open source implementation of the Dot-Net technologies, look at Mono which is licensed under GPL and LGPL.
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The dot-Net perspective.

Cedric Beust pointed out that the Win Tech Off-Topic mailing list has been discussing recent J2EE vs. .Net benchmarks. I wanted to get the .Net perspective too, so I joined the Win Tech Off-Topic Yahoo Group to take a look. As you would expect, the Microsoft fans have a different view of the benchmarks than us Java bloggers.  I found no great revelations, but reading the thread was somewhat entertaining.  It went something like this:
  • Wow, what an ass whoopin
  • Yep and one of those $40,000 app servers crashed!
  • Rickard says the benchmarks were a scam
  • Who the hell is Rickard, why would you trust a dreambean?
  • Rickard is an expert, I would trust him more than The Server Side
  • Rickard and The Register and anti-microsoft conspiracy nuts
  • Lots of talk about the "appeal to authority" argument
  • Lots of talk about whether the nickname "M$" is hate speech or not
  • The benchmark was flawed, .Net and J2EE performance are similar
  • Price/performance favors .Net because the app server is free with the OS
  • Look at that anti-Microsoft stuff on Russell Beattie's site, that guy is sick!
Just as rambling and crazy as any thread you'd find on The Server Side. I guess that is why they call it "off-topic." Why do I waste my time like this?  I should have bypassed that and turned my attention first to Ted Neward's nicely balanced article on the topic: The Petstore...Again.
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