Michael writes:

[snip]

><plug - because I am a MacroMedia Partner>
><sorrow - for what might have been>
><future? - for what still could be for the homesteading crowd>
>
>Ok, I wasn't sure what to make the subject line read, but below is a
>link to an article by InfoWorld about IBM and SUN supporting
>MacroMedia's next generation of tools.  It talks about MacroMedia Cold
>Fusion MX which will work with a J2EE server, and the "hundreds of
thousands" of
>applications that will be able to now run on IBM and SUN
>boxes.  Although the article doesn't really get into it, since it uses a
J2EE
>application server, my impression is that you "should" be able to take
>the CF engine and run it on any J2EE application server.  I believe that
>would (possibly?) include MPE/iX.  Think of what the availability of
"hundreds
>of thousands" of applications running under MPE/iX could have done for the
3000.

Absolutely nothing. Why you ask? Let me count the ways:

1. The cost of the HP e3000 compared to other j2ee compatible
   solutions is way too high.

2. No one is going to buy an MPE box to run their j2ee application when
   faster and cheaper options exist.

3. Existing j2ee deployments are mostly open systems (spell unix here) and
   mixing in a new operating environment is not what people are looking for.
   They want 'sameness'. Sad but true.

4. If mpe were a superior java platform this might be possible, but java on
   mpe is mostly inferior. Ask LegacyJ. Ask those who have tried to deploy
   java production systems. Ask those who have tried to figure out all the
   correct patches and versions to get it performing reasonable.

duane percox

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