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Weekly notes: Text pump - Loosely Coupled weblog, Nov 26th 2004 11:45pm
"Talking of contract-oriented computing, it wasn't a surprise to see Jeff Schneider endorsing the ActiveGrid approach, in terms that are so much more strident than even mine, it gives me great pleasure to quote them in full:

"ActiveGrid made a hard left turn. The company appears to have come to the obvious realizations that no one else seems to have the guts to admit:

• J2EE is a bloated set of deprecated patches


• Static Java objects and dynamic XML collide


• Contract first programming make 'languages less important'


• If you're in an SO world, you might as well pick an SO friendly language


• J2EE was designed to scale across a VM that sits on a multi-CPU box


• Oh, Sun owns Java and J2EE, and what do you know... they sell multi-CPU boxes


• Rip & replace Intel/AMD/Linux boxes are fast, cheap and reliable


• LAMP is here to stay


• The growth rate of transactions inside an enterprise is significant


• The last-gen computing method will hit an 'economic breaking point'."

Jeff's previous post was talking about 'Contract First' design, which seems to dovetail with stuff I've previously posted about contract-oriented computing and contract-oriented architecture: "Forget service-oriented. It's contracts that matter. Without contracts, on-demand is a limitless commitment." "