Comments on: Note To Intel and HP: Invest here http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2005/05/25/note-to-intel-and-hp-invest-here/ An industry analyst blog looking at software ecosystems and convergence Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:35:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fraxas http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2005/05/25/note-to-intel-and-hp-invest-here/comment-page-1/#comment-260 Fraxas Thu, 26 May 2005 07:36:07 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/wp/?p=234#comment-260 Super-minor nit, James: it's about the barriers to exit, too. Not just entry. Not so much when blog comments are concerned (though you could argue that throwaway or pseudonymous identities are somewhat barrier-to-exit-lowering in that they allow a person to disavow a set of remarks), but where application architectures are concerned, it certainly does. One of the things that's always bothered me about Java is that there's still a huge amount of 'vendor lock-in' involved; realistically, you're stuck with Sun's development kit and library set and execution environment. At least now, with C#, I have the choice of two runtimes....and that makes C# a more attractive implementation language than it was before Mono was Real Enough. Super-minor nit, James: it’s about the barriers to exit, too. Not just entry. Not so much when blog comments are concerned (though you could argue that throwaway or pseudonymous identities are somewhat barrier-to-exit-lowering in that they allow a person to disavow a set of remarks), but where application architectures are concerned, it certainly does.

One of the things that’s always bothered me about Java is that there’s still a huge amount of ‘vendor lock-in’ involved; realistically, you’re stuck with Sun’s development kit and library set and execution environment. At least now, with C#, I have the choice of two runtimes….and that makes C# a more attractive implementation language than it was before Mono was Real Enough.

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