Choosing a technology for enterprise level application development

At the start of the many projects, the teams and business people face the problem of selecting the best technology for the project. There are various factors which need to be considered while selecting any technology. I had been part of many such teams.
Couple of teams decided to go for technology which I would never recommend .

In one such case, Oracle form was selected to develop the project. The only reason it was selected because it provides quickest way to develop UI. But that not the way to develop an enterprise level project. One has to see the maintenance cost, durability, support for the tech from the vendor, longevity of the project etc.

In another project HTML DB was selected. Everything works fine and application goes into production. But the nightmares start when customers start asking for changes, enhancements etc. Since in such tech. the code (mainly SQL and procedural code) is scattered all over the places the changes become headaches. One example is that the team needed to refactor(or normalize) the tables but this idea has to be dropped as the tables were used at many places in SQLs and SQLs were scattered all over the places. Even after changing the testing would have been almost impossible.

The solution is to develop the systems in OO languages and the one which provides total ecosystem (from ui, server code etc till deployment phase) for enterprise development.

J2EE (now JEE) perfectly fits the bill. Many advantages go in favor of JEE tech stack trace. First, it is based upon open standards. If you feel like improving something in it, you can be part of JCP. There is a huge open source community behind it along with well established vendors like IBM, Oracle, SUN etc. It is not dependent upon the whims of one big corporation which will do anything to kill the competition and then later will force its customer to pay heavy license fees and/or buy upgraded expensive versions. J2EE tech provides many frameworks to make the system stable, robust, easy to change,easy to monitor etc (junit, logging, continuous integration etc, mock objects etc). All this adds up to good ROI and feel good and confident factor for the customer.