Blogging Roller

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.