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Gates Tries to Explain .Net
AdamBa writes "Speaking to financial analysts and reporters, Bill Gates admitted that .NET hadn't caught on as quickly
as he had hoped. The headline ('Gates admits .NET a "misstep"') is a bit misleading; he doesn't think all of .NET was a misstep, just the My Services part (aka Hailstorm). He also said that labelling the current generation of enterprise products as .NET might have been 'premature.' Summary: Microsoft got too excited about locking in users via Hailstorm and botched the overall .NET message." There's also a Reuters report and a NYTimes story on the same subject, which includes the interesting line: "Microsoft also warned today that the era of "open computing," the free exchange of digital information that has defined the personal computer industry, is ending." It isn't clear if Microsoft is talking about something happening beyond their control, or if they're boasting about ending it.
.NET is an Enterprise Tier program specification, similar to J2EE in planned functionality. The enterprise tier is where real applications are written, and by real I mean distributed both logically and computationally. .NET and J2EE allow programmers to connect services such as databases, webservices, webpages and applicatins together into a larger Enterprise Application that is the sum of its parts. If you don't understand most of this you should try a google search and read some specification documents. If you find that reading too dry, that is why you are a 50,000 tech that writes shitty pearl instead of a Genius that doesn't care about money but makes more of it than your whole family anyway.
spellin' is for F7
Microsoft will win this one in time. Sun is in bad shape. People are switching in droves to Linux because it has a better price / performance ratio than Solaris. There is nothing this side of a an IBM mainframe that is more painful than Solaris. Crusty user interface from the 80s. Pain in the ass cryptic config files. Overpriced shit. About the only reason that you'd run this hunk of shit OS is for it's one strong suit. It runs on hardware that is compatiable with large corporate databases with tons of I/O. We had a power failure. We lost a Solaris box because something in the file system FUBARed. Usually it's just a pain in the ass to start after a power outage. All of the windows NT and 2000 boxes rebooted without so much as a hiccup. Second Intel will (already has) surpassed the SPARC architecture. Sun from a business perspective is fucked. They will be lucky to stay in business over the long haul. Microsoft has 50 billion in the bank. Sun is letting people go and losing money every 1/4. Microsoft is hiring 5000 for R and D. Linux is eating Sun's lunch. Windows XP on a strong Intel box will bury a Sun workstation in performance, ease of use, available software, available hardware, you name it. Microsoft on the desktop for any use is better than Sun. Further, C# and Java are both abstracted from the hardware via a virtual machine. Follow me on this. Sun created a Java VM to run on Windows. What do you think the chances are than Microsoft can create a VM to run on Solaris? Lastly outside of Struts and Apache open source software sucks. Leading the pack in suckage is CVS. The god forsaken hunk of shit.
But then I guess it's human nature to throw insults when one lacks facts.
Yes, it seems you've definately proven that.
I find it curious that you refuse to respond to any of the points I raise.
That was the most pointless rant ever posted on this forum. You spouted a bunch of random facts that together made absolutely no sense.
Let me let you in on a little secret..Linux will never, ever be a desktop OS for the simple reason that only a fool wants to do something the hard way. This has nothing to do with education or laziness or drive. Because for every 1 person you show me that calls himself an avid linux user I can show you 10 people in the business world that want an OS that's easy to set up and use. Reliability and Security? Let the tech's worry about it, it's not their problem. You seem to think only in right and wrong, black and white.
Try thinking like a business man and you'll see: their is no right and wrong, only cheap and expensive, hard and easy.
But you go ahead, keep the dream alive. While you live in that world, I'll live in the real one. The Linux Desktop will never exist.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.