In the interests of equal time, I’d like to reproduce here (edited just a bit) a comment from my Monday post. In that post, I basically derided as boring Google’s latest enterprise middleware product, ...

We have a commercial applications, Siemens Teamcenter, running in our enterprise. It relies on a couple of Java processes that unfortunately aren't the most robust and reliable things in the IT world.

The drive towards newer Java versions and updated enterprise specifications isn’t just about keeping up with the latest tech; ...