Well, we're a linux company, use linux everywhere from servers, workstations and the product we'd be shipping and guess what we've recently gotton more than 25 million funding.
Your post just shows that Micro$ofties don't get it... do they?
Its one thing to compete on merits and its other to kill the competition based on your monoply in existing infrastructure. What do you say about M$'s threats to OEMs to just release IE with windows? To threaten them to not give Netscape as an alternative option? What do you say about M$ making agreement with AOL to provide IE with their software and not Netscape? If you're interested to know more, go visit this site:
http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/dirtytricks.s html
language independance is still a hype. Micro$oft's claim about language independance is not new with.NET. They've been claiming the same language independance with COM/DCOM, and all of us saw how much those claims were true. Now, they've started the same claims with.NET, which're not true either. And yes, its possible if you end up modifying all of the languages to conform to similar features. You can observe this thing happening to VB.net, as millions of VB developers are complaining about the modifications to the language:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2675 673,00.html
Some VB developers are saying that its no more Visual Basic but Visual Fred or VB.NOT.
This isn't a victory of Micro$oft. Micro$oft agreed to pay $20 million to Sun as damages. They can no longer use "java compatibility" logo and they can't use Sun's java technology in any new products. Rather they've been allowed to include sun's java technology intheir existing products for next 7 years.
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Well, we're a linux company, use linux everywhere from servers, workstations and the product we'd be shipping and guess what we've recently gotton more than 25 million funding.
Your post just shows that Micro$ofties don't get it... do they? Its one thing to compete on merits and its other to kill the competition based on your monoply in existing infrastructure. What do you say about M$'s threats to OEMs to just release IE with windows? To threaten them to not give Netscape as an alternative option? What do you say about M$ making agreement with AOL to provide IE with their software and not Netscape? If you're interested to know more, go visit this site: http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/dirtytricks.s html
language independance is still a hype. Micro$oft's claim about language independance is not new with .NET. They've been claiming the same language independance with COM/DCOM, and all of us saw how much those claims were true. Now, they've started the same claims with .NET, which're not true either. And yes, its possible if you end up modifying all of the languages to conform to similar features. You can observe this thing happening to VB.net, as millions of VB developers are complaining about the modifications to the language:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2675 673,00.html
Some VB developers are saying that its no more Visual Basic but Visual Fred or VB.NOT.
As a matter of fact. IBM JDK 1.1.7 (and 1.1.8) has been the fastest JVM and its still the fastest JVM.
This isn't a victory of Micro$oft. Micro$oft agreed to pay $20 million to Sun as damages. They can no longer use "java compatibility" logo and they can't use Sun's java technology in any new products. Rather they've been allowed to include sun's java technology intheir existing products for next 7 years.