Can’t I have an opinion?
Posted by billburke on September 26, 2007
I’m annoyed today. Seems my Go Away Ruby blog has some people thinking that I wrote it to discredit Ruby because I believed RoR is a threat to JBoss. Andy Oliver wrote:
“Ruby was his target, probably because of a perceived (though wrongly so in my opinion) threat to JBoss’s still flagship JBossAS.”
Savio recently linked to my blog in this quote:
“If RoR is such a threat, why are other Java app server vendors “doing okay“?”
Does he think I think RoR is a threat as well? This particular Savio quote was referencing a hilarious quote from a Reuter analyst:
“Chowdhry of Global Equities Research said the prospects for JBoss were dim because its software was designed to work with the Java programming language.
He said Java was losing market share as businesses embrace Ruby, a programming language that is easier to use and works with an open-source rival to JBoss known as Ruby on Rails.”
PHP, Perl, and Python have been around as long or longer than Ruby and RoR, have larger libraries, more applications, and a larger user base. So does that mean an even a closer death for Java and JBoss? Heiko Braun had a funny comment on an internal JBoss mail list:
You see Bill what happens when promoting REST?
Seriously guys, can’t I have an opinion on anything? Maybe its just that I don’t like Ruby or RoR, ya think? It can’t be that simple can it? There has to be some JBoss conspiracy. I just have to be one of Rickard’s evil aliens. Or as Bobby Boucher’s mother would say, “Bill Burke is the devil.”
September 26, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Hey Bill, I totally agree with you.
Mr. Chowdhry of Global Equities Research seems to think that RoR is a threat to you guys (and likely to other JEE servers?). I find that amusing.
Somehow, I very much doubt that anyone at RH/JBoss is losing sleep over RoR
Savio
September 26, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Opinions are like [fill in the blank].
September 26, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Opinions are like the devil
September 27, 2007 at 9:23 am
Fanbois are not allowed opinions
And Trip’s talking through his turban…
October 5, 2007 at 5:32 pm
You - and by extension JBoss - have a tendency to irritate. Don’t let it bother you.
October 9, 2007 at 11:55 am
I like to irritate… maybe i should take a page from savio and have a disclaimer.