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LAMP Grid Application Server, No More J2EE

Posted by michael on from the corporate-duct-tape dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Check out this blog entry in Loosely Coupled about ActiveGrid's new open source Grid Application Server based on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) stack. Not to start another PHP vs. Java flame war, but it looks like LAMP is starting to grow up, and that it is much better suited for next generation applications than J2EE."

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  1. "Not to start another flamewar BUT..." by rleyton · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...LAMP is much better suited for next generation applications than J2EE?

    Not provocative at all that. No. Not in the slightest.

    I'm sure the flamewar that no doubt follows is merely a figment of our collective imaginations.

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    1. Re:"Not to start another flamewar BUT..." by timbloid · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's the Slashdot equivalent of saying "No offense" after doubting someone's parentage to their face ;)

    2. Re:"Not to start another flamewar BUT..." by Alpha27 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ha, you naive little underlying...

      I use carrier pigeons to transmit the hole punch data to chicken routes, that spits out egg packets to your computers.

      Next week, we are migrating to ant communication through the use of their scent glands for communication. Open Source all the way... just grab an ant and hack the chemistry and the biology.

    3. Re:"Not to start another flamewar BUT..." by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: 3, Funny
      That's nothing. I have a team of 11,000 midgets, with a dedicated sub-grouping of 26 midgets leading 13 categories, all shouting ones and zeroes in seemingly random succession, either to the group itself or to a "router" group.

      Oh, and they snarl.

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      Slashdot: Where people pretend to be twice as smart as they really are by behaving like children.
    4. Re:"Not to start another flamewar BUT..." by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not to start another flamewar BUT...

      Here is a box of matches and a gallon of gasoline. Lets see who can light a mathc quickest after being drenched in gasoline.

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      Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
  2. What the? by Prophetic_Truth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not to start another PHP vs. Java flame war, but it looks like LAMP is starting to grow up, and that it is much better suited for next generation applications than J2EE."

    Thats like me saying, "Not to offend you, but check out goatse.cx!"

    ITS JUST NOT POSSIBLE TO HAVE IT BOTH WAYS!

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    time is a perception of a being's consciousness
    time is your 6th sense, the wierd ones are 7+
    1. Re:What the? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      > Mysql is improving though but I would rather be castrated than use it in a big warehouse.

      Wow. I must get more use out of my boys, because frankly I'll make do with COBOL and raw ISAM calls or flatfiles or Access, if castration were the alternative...

  3. Re:In which world? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Begun this flame war has.

  4. Re:I haven't RTFA, but... by dave420 · · Score: 3, Funny
    No, 'cos then you have LAPP.

    ba-DING.

  5. RTFA by aled · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Of course, calling its platform an application server is something of a marketing ploy since, as Peter has explained, an application server is the last thing you need. What ActiveGrid is really providing is a highly tuned "text pump" to occupy the fabric/bus space in a transaction-intensive enterprise data center."

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    "I think this line is mostly filler"
  6. Translation? by Jacques+Chester · · Score: 2, Funny

    I tried every online translator I could, however the article still comes out as absolute gibberish.

    What with the concurrent text pump synergies, next languages, impedance mismatches and grid quantum antipolarity trilithium subspace continuums, I got a bit lost.

    Anyone understand what they're peddling?

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    Classical Liberalism: All your base are belong to you.

    1. Re:Translation? by Jacques+Chester · · Score: 1, Funny

      I knew it! Bloody proprietary Enterprise-class designs!

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      Classical Liberalism: All your base are belong to you.

  7. Re:I haven't RTFA, but... by NickeB · · Score: 3, Funny

    Which is the swedish word for patch... It's a sign I tell you!

  8. Re:Get a fucking grip by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Welcome to Slashdot, were a sad teenager with a laptop can register a SourceForge project and declare that he's going to take over the world within 12 months, and the mindless idiots which infest this place eat it up. I wouldn't be surprised if some fanboy hasn't already rushed off to draft a memo to his boss on why they need to dump their J2EE platform right now in favour of Grid/LAMP. He read it on Slashdot, it must be true. Look, it even has a SourceForge project page!

    No one needs to do the hard work any more, oh now. Just come up with any old idea and the world is yours. The implementation is a mere derail.

    I blame Gentoo myself. It's turned a bunch of clueless but previously harmless idiots into a bunch of clueless but deluded "hackers" who think that copying someone elses CFLAGS from a forum post makes them a compiler engineer and Open Source Guru. Bah.

  9. I don't mean to start a Flame War... by Galapas · · Score: 1, Funny

    but Emacs kicks the crap out of vi...

    -G

  10. Re:Get a fucking grip by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The Gentoy ricers are nice squishy targets and I'm in a bad mood. I need to draw them out of the bushes.

    For you, look on the bright side. It could have been, I could have mentioned Unbuntu, another prime breeding ground for lame little kids with delusions of grandiur.

    Oh, whoops.

  11. Flamewar by pigeon · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Not to start a flamewar, but you java developpers are a foul smelling, foul tasting bunch!"

  12. GAS LAMP by suso · · Score: 4, Funny

    Grid Application Server based on the LAMP

    So does that make it a GAS LAMP?

    *ta dit boom*

  13. Quite the reverse by kahei · · Score: 2, Funny


    He's saying: use a suite of highly-optimized tools (the various LAMP components, most of which are fast and all of which can be replaced with alternatives as necessary) rather than throw more hardware at an inherently slow platform (Java).

    It's all pretty much a matter of what you were brought up with. On the other hand, I'm working for a household-name client now that's banned Java across the board because they got sick of the 'buy more chips' solution to performance problems. Acceptable platforms: LAMP and .NET.

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  14. Finally! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally, a break from the Sun tax. Yeah, you know the one -- the one that makes you pour hundreds and hundreds of wasted man-hours into using poorly written programs with little or no documentation. What can you expect from crappy code written by scientists and corporations? I'll happily use code written by hobbyists any day, no matter what News for Nerds declares. Honestly, I know most of you agree with me!

  15. Re:In which world? by smcdow · · Score: 4, Funny
    ... and use CORBA mappings ...

    Some people, when confronted with a problem, say, "Let's use CORBA."

    Now they have two problems.

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    In the course of every project, it will become necessary to shoot the scientists and begin production.
  16. Re:Developing distributed apps is very hard with J by The+AtomicPunk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whatever drug you're on, send me some.