Thursday June 17, 2004 Macs! They Are Everywhere!
There is an interesting trend within the Customer Networked Services organization within Sun. Macs are popping up all over the place.
Not that I mind. I am an avid Mac user. I love my nice PowerBook 15" laptop. I am using it right now to write this entry. It's a beautiful machine, it is fast and it runs circle around my older P4 1.5Ghz desktop. Mac OS X is one of the most eye pleasing Unix-like system around. And I don't have to deal with the virii that is affecting Windows machines.
It also has great support for Java. It ships with support for J2SE. Mac OS X is supported my most major OSS IDEs. And they do run fast on it.
One thing that it doesn't have is support for the Sun Java System applications and servers. Oh sure, you can run NetBeans 3.6 on it (good IDE) and get close to what Sun Java Studio Standard Edition gives you, but you up a creek without a paddle if you need to use the features of the Enterprise Edition or if you want to play with Creator. It's even worst if you want to deploy against the SJS Application Server or the Web Server. Tomcat and JBoss are good, but they are not the platform that I am targetting at work.
So please, oh please... Can we get a Sun Java Studio Enterprise and a Sun Java Studio Creator for the Mac?
Thanks!
-- Fred
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