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James Gosling On .NET And The Anti-Trust Trial

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-minced-words dept.

gwernol writes: "There's a short but interesting interview with James Gosling over on ComputerWorld. He talks about the differences between J2EE and .NET and also about the Microsoft anti-trust trial. Some interesting perspectives from the founder of Java."

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  1. Gosling says by Tablizer · · Score: 1, Troll

    "I love it! Microsoft did all the stuff that our Java team should have done. Stick everybody with one and only one language? What the hell was I thinking?! I worship their genius."

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    1. Re:Gosling says by Tablizer · · Score: 0, Troll

      (* parent is not a quote... *)

      I thot that the hyperbole was enough to give it away, but I guess I should have explicitly said so to be on the safe side.

      BTW, there was a topic on Java v. .Net in the Programming section of /. a few days ago.

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  2. Re:Speaking of .NET... by aminorex · · Score: 1, Troll

    > If you've got a spare FreeBSD or Windows XP ...

    It seems worth pointing out that it is "illegal"
    (in the sense that that Microsoft owns the law)
    to do this on Linux. Really. Not kidding. Read
    the license.

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  3. Re:SUNW against the wall, this time for keeps by pnuema · · Score: 0, Troll

    Somebody mod this up, please. Finally a geek that understands financials.

  4. Balogna! by glrotate · · Score: 2, Troll

    All you need to look at are these pages:

    http://biz.yahoo.com/fin/l/m/msft_qb.html Balance Sheet

    http://biz.yahoo.com/fin/l/m/msft_qc.html Cash Flow

    Note:

    2.1 Billion incoming cash. 5.2 Billion Cash on Hand.

    I think MSFT is solid.

    I mean use a little intuition. Every beige box sold means $40 in revenue from windows. What's the Marginal Cost of another copy of windows $2? Now add in Office or Works. Then add all the copies of NT server that are sold, all the CAL's. All the Exchange servers, all the Exchaneg CALS. All the SQL servers, all the SQL CALs. Thats a honkin lot of revenue, and very little marginal cost. MS in making money hand over fist. That's what monopolies do, maximise the difference between marginal revenue and marginal cost. MS can keep cranking out licences and were stuck buying them.

    MS growth may slow, (although one could argue that vast international markets lay untapped), but they aren't about to colapse Enron style.