User: zetzet

OLE in .NET world?

On: Programming .NET Components

I don't like Microsoft, neither the company nor their technology, but i think Microsoft is the only company that got UI components working.

I think COM/DCOM is crap, but what's about OLE, the "visual" side of embedding applications and documents?

Is there an equivalent for OLE in the .NET world?

Joel is right, but..

On: Joel On The Economics of Open Source

Sun would alread be quite dead when they _didn't_ release Java to the developer community.

Without Java and the ever increasing PC Power (CPU for a long time, I/O catching up slowly) only a small minority (same size as the zOS/CICS/Cobol developers ;-)) would use Unix/Solaris as their development environment.

Given the cheap developer costs (PC with WinNT, Intellij and Oracle 8i), a large amount (if not most) people in the corparate (in house) software development are using Java.

Solaris is a good server OS, and everybody that has the money will prefer the high quality Sun hardware over 99,9% of the PC crap hardware, when it comes to 7/24.

I think Joel missed that (minor) point because he focus on his "shrinkwraped" business, where the rulese are sometimes quite different.

To sum it up: good article, Joel rules, but he won't win the nobel price for economics :-)

Bye,

Jürgen

Fraunhofer IIS != Fraunhofer IGD

On: Good News On Two Open-Codec Fronts

Hi,

the Fraunhofer Institute that licensed the
DIVX Coces (IGD) is not the same Institute
that developed mp3 (IIS).

All Fraunhofer Institutes are under one
umbrella, but they are _very_ independent, some
like each other, some not.

And yes, i know a lot about them, 'cause
i worked at Fraunhofer IIS ;-)

Bye,

Jürgen