On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 11:29:59 -0500, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The lead system architect for one of the world's largest banks told me that > he uses the "bookstore test". If he can walk into a bookstore and find > several books on a technology, then he knows it has arrived. Why? Because the > publishers take their work *very* seriously. They talk directly to people in > the industry who are making the decisions and using the technology. And, if > one book doesn't make money, competitors aren't going to print 18 more. :) > If you ask publishers, they will tell you that most people don't buy > technical books because they are curious about a technology, they buy books > because they need to use a technology.
FWIW, the online backing app for the bank operating my personal checking account uses Struts ... talk about putting your money where your mouth is :-). When I was in Brazil a couple of months ago, I got a chance to visit the company that processes basically all ATM transactions for the country, and saw them demonstrate to me what has to be one of the larger Struts applications in the world (many hundreds of pages). To say nothing of the very wide variety of Fortune 500 IT managers that have thanked me personally for making Struts available for their IT departments. Or the fact that virtually every development tool either features its Struts support or has plugins to make it easier to use. Regarding use of open source for applications -- even if you're close minded enough not to do that, there likely isn't a production quality app server around that doesn't use open source components for some critical infrastructure *inside* the server. Whether the company uses it for their own development or not is pretty much irrelevant to the fact that they are already depending on open source. > > -Ted. > Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
