From: mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] pitching 9fans
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 21:39:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8155236c953ef3881a682002f2b314a2@plan9.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
If you're pitching Plan 9 in any environment, here's a good quote that
most of 9fans already know, and others instinctively feel:
So what should we look out for in IT fashion? The biggest
fashion killer is the ratio of complexity to functionality, or
simply Value-Add. The problem with EJB was that you had to
put so much effort in to get so little out. It brought back
the 'knives and daggers' that Java promised to remove. The
latest EJB spec has promised to hide the complexity, but in
reality it's too late; IT vendors don’t often get a second
bite at the apple (Apple, ironically, being the exception).
Plan 9 beats _almost_ everything (exception being possibly inferno ;)
when it comes to the Functionality/Complexity ratio...
Whole article (somewhat curmudgeonly):
http://www.softwarereality.com/soapbox/softwarefashion.jsp
Ten years too late: Andrey
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