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Cool reversal

Stefan Tilkov, Apr 22, 2003

In an article at webservices.org, I found this truly funny explanation about BEA’s history:

The company’s initial product line, Tuxedo, purchased from Novell in 1996, is a transaction monitor - essentially, an application server without the Web UI features.

This is so great - it’s like saying “C++ is a sort of compiled Java”.