Interesting Quotes From J2EE vs. LAMP vs. NET Faceoff at LinuxWorld 2006

Perceived leaders of all three principal open source stacks (LAMP, J2EE and .NET via Mono) on Linux debated the merits of their respective platforms at LinuxWorld 2006 in Boston. My humble annotations are in square bracket.

“Java is great, PHP sucks and .NET can’t scale.” [Short and sweet.]
– Shaun Connoly JBoss’s vice president of product development.

“LAMP is the platform of the Web.” [So is J2EE & .NET]]
“Ruby is definitely fascinating and a great platform.” [Fascinating, yes.]
“What LAMP and .NET have in common is broad multi-language support, and that’s not something you get from a Java environment.” [What about Jython and JRuby?]
– Peter Yared CEO of ActiveGrid.

“Frameworks are kind of like a lifestyle.” [I am happy that he didn't say - frameworks are like marriage]
– Miguel de Icaza, founder of the Mono project