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November 08, 2006
Another day - another boring keynote
Jason Vokes and Jon Harrison from the Borland Developer Tools Group EMEA are giving this afternoon's keynote at W-JAX. The title of the keynote is "Getting the best of both worlds through use of open source and commercial development software". Guess where this one is heading.
The first part of the keynote was, as Jason called it, "teaching your Gran how to suck eggs" (which doesn't translate well to German - so luckily they didn't try). Jason really just went over some of the advantages of Open Source and what developers expect from a tool. Yawn.
The rest of the keynote was how Borland is moving JBuilder2007 to be on top of Eclipse, while maintaining the "JBuilder experience". In the slides, Jon Harrison went through all the reasons Borland thinks JBuilder is better than just an Open Source solution. Yeah, right.
The whole talk was way too full of "market-speak" for my taste and while I realize why sponsors of a conference demand their right to do a keynote - why can't someone kick their butt so that they actually talk about something interesting? Please.
Added: Just to make it clear, not all the keynotes here at W-JAX are boring. Just enough to make me want to write that title. Tim Bray's keynote yesterday was really interesting (for example).
Posted by Matthew at November 8, 2006 04:45 PM