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HP Announces National Id System Built on .NET
Anonymous Coward writes "Yahoo is running a story about HP's national ID plan, 'The need to securely identify people moving across national and international borders has never been more important than it is today,' said Jim Ganthier, worldwide leader, Defense, Intelligence and Public Safety, HP. 'HP and Microsoft are working together to provide government agencies the ability to access the integrated data streams needed to securely identify people both in the physical and virtual worlds.'"
If .NET is not fit for Longhorn, how is it fit in this enlarged and more crucial role? I truly hope that those whom get presented this idea also get presented this fact as well.
The Crimson Dragon
First time MS tried passport Sun objected and quickly put together a powerful alliance of technology and banking companies to propose a competing effort. Although the effort ultimately produced nothing it spread enough doubt to derail passport.
This time MS is better prepared. They already bought sun for all proactical purposes. With Sun now officially a MS lapdog who will stand in opposition to this venture? Of course the open source community will but they don't own enough politicians to do anything.
It will be interesting to see if any members of the liberty alliance object to this. My guess is that unless some tech company takes the lead they will simply jump on the MS bandwagon.
It's amazing what a few billion can buy you these days. MS by dumping a fistfull of dollars into Suns lap got them out of the way and now will be in full control of the identitiy of everybody in the US.
evil is as evil does
What a slap in the face for Sun and Java 5 J2EE 1.5.
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.NET is the most advanced RAD environment on the market today. It's a joy to program in, and it's so well designed that in 99.5% of cases you don't even need documentation. Things are just done the way they should be done. .NET is also standardized with open, publicly available specification available to anyone. Whidbey release gets even more things right (generics, partial classes, nullable types, etc.)
.NET only runs on Windows. I know about Mono, but it's not quite there yet, and my guess is it'll always be at least one year behind and not ready for deployment.
The only downside is that
Your view can hardly be considered objective. Given the choice between an HP product and an equivalent product not manufactured by HP, then I would always choose the non-HP alternative. No exceptions. This is not predjudice, this is years of experience in college and in the workplace.
In fact, I think I'd rather go without the capability to produce hard copy than use an HP printer. Assuming that those were the only choices.
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