The Middleware Report

Hmm...familiar story....once again Middleware publishes a benchmark report comparing .NET with IBM (please note, not J2EE) and once again the results are favourable to Microsoft.

While I question the contradiction of a report remaining "independent" while being "commissioned" by an IT vendor, I think it is fair to say that all of the research muscle that MS has put behind .NET seems to be paying off - might as well acknowledge all of the good work they have done and continue to do in the tools space....

On this topic, it amazes me that developers who are usually such a pragmatic lot metamorphose into such intransigent zealots when it comes to languages and development platforms - Any comparison is always followed by heart rending but ludicrous cries of "unethical", "unfair", "sold out to the devil" (wtf?)......

Take a look at this - http://www.fogcreek.com/About.html (yes it is from the redoubtable Joel Spolsky :) ) So what are we really fighting for?