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.NET for Apache

Posted by chrisd on from the apache-ain't-done-till-.net-won't-run dept.

PerlGuy was so kind as to forward us the news about the joint Apache/Microsoft combined press conference scheduled from Wednesday at the OSCON Quote: "We will announce news related to the Apache web server and Microsoft's development technology, .NET. This should be one of the biggest announcements of the conference..." The email he recieved: Covalent Technologies will be holding a press conference at the O'Reilly Conference on Wednesday at 3:15 in suite 415 (during the afternoon break). We will announce news related to the Apache web server and Microsoft's development technology, .NET. This should be one of the biggest announcements of the conference and an interesting follow up to Microsoft's appearance last year at the show as well as to their general comments on open source. Executives will be on hand to answer questions or to conduct one-on-one interviews after the announcement.

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  1. Re:.net is not evil by Chris+Johnson · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    You could have had all that in what, 1997? It was up and running on the Mac platform, through OpenDoc. Specifically, the live values (up to and including having fancy charting driven by live values over the Internet), the ability to drag web or graphics or word processing objects onto pretty much anything. That's what OpenDoc was.

    From looking back at the history of that and the interactions with Apple, it looks like Microsoft killed it. Told Apple, 'we don't want you doing this' and Apple looked at the costs, the earliness of the paradigm (document-oriented not application-oriented), and Microsoft's obvious objection to the technology being out there, and *sniccckt!* killed it on command. It got 'Steved', and it was out there being used, the base of a brilliant internet suite of functionalities, the base of a set of technology startups building stuff to work with the new way of doing things.

    That was OpenDoc, which threatened Microsoft's Office dominance by undercutting the whole application model. It existed, it was out there being used. The fact that you're looking to .NET to do this is pretty obscene, considering the history. Microsoft won't be letting you do this. Not unless they start charging per use-of-embedded-object...