[jtud] FW: FW: jTechUpdate V.02-06-02: Java is alive and well and living in Chicago
- From: "Karl Dallas" <karldallas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jtud@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 22:33:48 +0100
This gets worse and worse. I did attach the Word file, but it doesn't
appear to have been sent, possibly because Freelists doesn't send
attachments. I'll look into this and remedy the situation.
Meanwhile, here is the article again, with the figures, hopefully in a
format which will be readable:
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jTechUpdate V.02-06-01
a weekly online newsletter for the Java community, edited by Karl Dallas
CHICAGO, Wednesday June 06, 2002-Java is alive and well and living in
Chicago. And if you've been confused by the hype surrounding .Net and C#
consider this simple table of information:
Quarterly Results
2002 over 2001 % Increase/Decrease
Rational Software Licence Revenue -39% Total Revenue -25% EPS
-55%
Iona Licence Revenue -7% Total Revenue -7% EPS -$.23
BEA Licence Revenue -19% Total Revenue -12% EPS -80%
Sybase Licence Revenue -15% Total Revenue -8% EPS -7%
SAP Licence Revenue -12% Total Revenue 9% EPS -40%
Oracle Licence Revenue -30% Total Revenue -17% EPS -10%
Progress Licence Revenue 30% Total Revenue 7% EPS 20%
A thousand developers and analysts in Chicago's plush Hyatt Regency
Hotel this week knew the explanation of that particular bottom line:
Java.
Java is so central to Progress Software that it hardly needs mentioning,
it is the unspoken subtext to the success of the company's 4GL. Yes,
since Progress tools can interface with everything from .Net to Oracle,
and can use anything from VB to C++, their systems are virtually
code-agnostic, but it is still Java running under the hood.
This transparency might well be why the only sessions which concentrated
specifically on Java sounded rather like teaching grandmothers to suck
eggs: does any professional really need an explanation of terms like
J2EE and JDBC, or what it means to say that the Progress JDBC driver is
type 2?
Far more important to look at wireless applications or how to get the
best performance from a database. Or to spend an instructive evening
going round a local Dart Warehouse to see how supply chain excellence,
as applied by helps Mrs Jane Doe get what she wants from the Sears mail
order catalogue, using XML-formatted event triggering, Java message
queued messaging, socket-based messaging, and reply-validated
error-handling, all running on a single UltraSPARC II Enterprise 3000
server, using over 100,000 lines of Progress 4GL to consolidate, zone
route, maximise and optimise 260,000 cases of diverse materials into the
smallest possible space every day.
(Similar systems are operating in Canada, UK, Holland, Switzerland, and
Russia, all utilising Integrated Warehousing Solutions' IRMS warehouse
management system, able natively to communicate in English, Spanish,
French, or Russian. IWS claim their solutions ship over $3.5
billions-worth of inventory every day.)
Dart told me that since implementing this Java-based system, their
productivity has increased by 50 per cent, and they saved over a million
dollars in labour costs in its first year of operation, with the
workforce of 400 cut to 159, and the working day cut from 24/7 to 9-to-5
Monday to Friday.
Sitting in the break-out and "birds of a feather" sessions in this
three-day 4GL fest, it was easy to understand why Progress products are
used by over 2000 independent software vendors delivering over $5
billions a year in business application products and services each year.
And powering all this revenue is the programming environment Bill Gates
wishes would go away and die - Java.
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Karl Dallas, HoustonMedia
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