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Charles, Dion and the TSS love triangle
OK, well I'm not sure what's going on between Charles and Dion cue Mariah Carey singing, but I do have to agree with Charles' sentiments.
Love them or hate them, TSS has done an awful lot for the enterprise Java community over the last few years. Sure, they're in it to make money as a media company, but they understand that the best way to make money is to have a vibrant J2EE community. In that way, their interests are directly aligned with making J2EE bigger and better.
To put it simply, as J2EE as a technology, they stand to sell more ads, more conference tickets and make more money.
So to suggest that buy starting a .Net site means they're in any way going to give up on J2EE is ludicrious in my opinion.
(PS I may be a little biased because I'm a speaker at the last, and at the next TSS Symposium - but the last Sympsium was truly the best Java conference I've ever been to. Whether you like TSS or not, I'd still encourage you strongly to go to the conference just to meet the great J2EE minds - and me :))
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I don't really understand people who jihad against the publishers of TSS for publishing a .NET site. Do they boycott O'Reilly and other publishers who put out books about competing technologies?
As someone who writes Java and C# I have to agree. Why do people have to be so preoccupied with what "politically correct" technologies are in their opinion?
Why does it have to be mutually exclusive to be supporting competing techologies?
I feel like the times of cowboys and indians in kindergarten reading such threads.
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