Mark Driver Quotations

Java Studio Creator 2 is an update to Sun's Java Studio product, which is a new generation tool attempting to simplify Java development. Java Studio Creator 2 is trying to make the Java platform more attractive to developers coming from a Microsoft Windows or 4GL tool environment.

I still think that Visual Studio .NET is superior to any of the Java tools for Web Services, even if it's only by a little. Microsoft has a clear advantage for rapid application development.

The arrival of solid development tools makes AJAX ready for the mainstream market.

Microsoft is really going to focus on their partnerships throughout the entire conference. They've really courted a bunch of third-party vendors to integrate their tools into Visual Studio .NET. The list of third-party tools announced (at Tech Ed) is going to be long.

This year is a coming-out party, really, for PHP, PHP is the king of the Web development world.

The problem is (that) in order for these third-party vendors to put out competing products, they would have to throw out a whole bunch of their old code.

It moved from technology to the end-user realm. All those things came together in 2005.