ROGER SESSIONS DISQUALIFIES JYTHON AS "FREEWARE"

[James_Althoff at i2.com]

Don O'Donnell wrote:
>In the current issue of his monthly newsletter "ObjectWatch":
>
>http://www.objectwatch.com/issue_33.htm
>
>Roger Sessions, author of "COM+ and the Battle for the Middle Tier", and
>ever a strong proponent of the Microsoft mantra from COM to DCOM to COM+
>to .NET, in his main article "IS JAVA LANGUAGE NEUTRAL", searches for
>languages, other than Java, which run on the Java platform.  I read it
>avidly, expecting to find kind words about Jython.  Alas, he classifies
>JPython/Jython as "Freeware" and lumps it together with "School/Hobby
>projects" and says:
>
>"Both of these categories include technologies
>that show the feasibility of generating JBC from sources other than Java
>(a capability that is not in dispute), but do not include actual supported

>implementations that would be used in a large commercial project."

I guess this news would come as quite a surprise to our customers who have
paid millions of $$$ for our Jython-based products.

I suppose you could say that our "hobby projects" have been _very_
rewarding.  ;-)

(BTW, the total revenue for all of our products -- not just the Jython-base
ones -- last year were over a billion dollars so we are not exactly a
"small fish" in the commercial software world.)


>(JBC == Java bytecode)
>
>I just thought that some of you Jython programmers out there (I only use
>the C version myself) might want to take issue with him.
>
>-Don