Re: Code donations for RPGUI initiative

Actually I'd like competitions between platforms implementing a common

specification, so you can easily choose (sorry, soapbox again).

I'd agree with this soapbox though, because it really let's people know the
effort involved with any given programming stack. It would also give
framework builders a chance to see where they lack and address those areas.
If I am not mistaken, this has been talked about in the past where people
mentioned writing something like the "Pet Shop" application in a variety of
frameworks/languages for comparison sake.

Aaron Bartell
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
<ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Kelly Cookson skrev:

The whole point of being different is to create a marketing edge.

Something that these hardware platforms have that others don't, and
something that customers want to buy.

Right. I think competition between platforms is good. It gives companies

choices. Having the ability to develop applications that can run on multiple
platforms lets a company choose the platform(s) they want while protecting
their current investments in programming tools and applications.

Actually I'd like competitions between platforms implementing a common
specification, so you can easily choose (sorry, soapbox again).

In the Java Enterprise world, the core is strongly determined by the JEE
specification, and only the "configuration" is vendor specific. This
makes it much easier to have a core enterprise application which can be
deployed on any JEE container (with the necessary plumbing). This as
opposed to the marriage that is necessary otherwise.

Choice again :)

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