"If this standardization is being driven by upper management, they are hoping to turn the developer positions into a cookie cutter role."
-- We agree!
"A single language makes each developer easily replacable."
-- Dream on! At Wells Fargo, they have a bunch of hackers that have no concept of design. If you think a similar language helps, I want some of what you're smokin'.
Standardization will buy you time until your software is outsourced to India. You can let the hackers beat the hell out of it until it gets too expensive to maintain/enhance. Simple rule - do what makes sense. Java for everything does NOT make sense. When I worked for large engineering companies, Java sucked for large-scale systems. On the other hand, it worked well in other areas (e.g. Web-related apps).
On a tangent -
Hey, Wells Fargo is doing it. One of the tellers that made it up to the top of the software sector made a bundle off that idea. They want Java everywhere. Well, they're getting it everywhere. Looks great at the beginning and looks like crap soon after they begin hacking away at it. Long story short - if you have the right employees/engineers, they could do it with alphabet soup - therefore, let them apply the appropriate tool/language.
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"If this standardization is being driven by upper management, they are hoping to turn the developer positions into a cookie cutter role."
-- We agree!
"A single language makes each developer easily replacable."
-- Dream on! At Wells Fargo, they have a bunch of hackers that have no concept of design. If you think a similar language helps, I want some of what you're smokin'.
Standardization will buy you time until your software is outsourced to India. You can let the hackers beat the hell out of it until it gets too expensive to maintain/enhance. Simple rule - do what makes sense. Java for everything does NOT make sense. When I worked for large engineering companies, Java sucked for large-scale systems. On the other hand, it worked well in other areas (e.g. Web-related apps). On a tangent - Hey, Wells Fargo is doing it. One of the tellers that made it up to the top of the software sector made a bundle off that idea. They want Java everywhere. Well, they're getting it everywhere. Looks great at the beginning and looks like crap soon after they begin hacking away at it. Long story short - if you have the right employees/engineers, they could do it with alphabet soup - therefore, let them apply the appropriate tool/language.