Weblogic 9.0: the wizzing devil
# 2004-12-08 10:47:17 -0500 | Java | 6 CommentsA friend (fiend?) pointed out that BEA’s new Weblogic 9.0 (alias “Diablo”) has a new mascot/logo.
OMGWTF!
How can a $1B Company produce such a horrible mascot; did they outsource their marketing department to a kindergarten? And “It runs like the Devil” is the slogan!? The BEA marketing department sat down, pooled their collective wit and creativity, and came up with… It runs like the Devil?!
And what’s with the jaundiced, fat-necked imp taking a wizz? Maybe in the fiery hell-hole it calls home light diffracts according to different rules, but in this plane of existance your shadow is meant to at least resemble the projection of your silhouette onto the ground. Can anyone say “MS Paint”?
This may all sound a bit harsh, and I’m not Picasso myself, but it is quite easy to find people that know how to knock up a good logo. Hell, even a cash-poor Open Source project can come up with good logos.
I agree with you completely. BEA must be hiring inept monkey’s who never got their pen license and can only use a crayon!!!
I think their new product should be called "The Orang Fairy"!
Or maybe even "The Orange Fairy!" I never received my keyboard license.
At one point weblogic was a pretty slow beast. It must have made them hellishly proud to churn up something fast.
BTW: Didn’t know devil had such a swift foot!
What is the target audience for this product? Developers? Managers? Salesmen?
Developers. It’s a beta.
Weblogic:
> Unproductive (as with most J2EE apps)
> Slow (workshop is horrible - even with a 3gb workstation)
> Too complex - you have to be a weblogic admin to be a weblogic developer
> BLOATED - too much garbage in there…the portal framework is ridiculous…why use this? It serves NO advantage.
> Expensive, try JBoss or ANYTHING else first
Your good developers will run for the hills when you introduce this platform.
If they don’t, it’s only a matter of time. Don’t fall for the marketing hype.