Ted
Leung: If I'm looking for thought leadership from the community, in
the Java community, I'm looking towards the non Sun bloggers -- these
are the folks doing AOP, Groovy, SGen, Prevalence, WebWork, etc.
This shows the rich ecosystem that has grown up around Java. If I
look at the .NET community, I pretty much look for the MS
bloggers.
Let's not confuse cause and effect here. There used to be
plenty of .Net bloggers who didn't work for Microsoft. I
still haven't forgiven Microsoft for what they did to
Peter Drayton.
Dare I ask? Sam, What's the back-story on this one?
Christian - two years ago Peter and I discovered that we had common interests via weblogs and Google. Then Peter got hired by Microsoft. He got sucked under, and while he has tried to resurface once or twice, it appears that he's lost to the blogosphere for good.
Ted Leung takes me to task for making him expect the list of Sun bloggers would be full of incisive Java commentary (or, indeed, full of commentary). I plead undocumented tongue-in-cheekness and apologise a little, although I'd point out that Sun...
I'm not Sam, and I'm not exactly sure what anonymous means by "the microsoft core libraries and way of thinking", but I'm guessing that certainly every one of the ports of projects from the Java world qualifies in some way. And Sam has a good point, 2 years ago there were a number "Microsoft bloggers" that have since been hired by MS. I'd bet a google search for "giant sucking sound" would be revealing.
I wasn't trying to make a statement about cause and effect -- just noting what happens to be true (in my view) at the moment. I'm certainly not trying to say those dynamics couldn't (or shouldn't) change over time. I also said "pretty much". I'm aware of folks like Sam Gentile, Clemens Vasters, etc.
On Thought Leadership in the Java and .NET Developer Communities
Sam Ruby writes Ted Leung: If I'm looking for thought leadership from the community, in the Java community, I'm looking towards the non Sun bloggers -- these are the folks doing AOP, Groovy, SGen, Prevalence, WebWork, etc. This shows the rich...