You could write your own Java interpreter and call it Kaffe.....ooh, somebody already did that and even the super-trademark-protective Sun didn't sue them.
So, there is a clear distinction between the language and the scaffolding needed to run a program/translate it to executables.
Do all of you people seriously believe M$ is really that powerful, in that all they have to do is just start talking to execs and invest in stock and BOOM, that company is now gone and we are playing taps???? If you do, congradulations, you have no logical and rational thought.
A: Can you name one MS competitor that survived a MS investment AS A COMPETITOR? I can't. (ANyway partial invetsments are not MS style)
B: There are only three reasons for MS to invest in another company :
the other company has bigger margins than MS (very unlikely) or expects bigger (monopoly-like) margins in the future
the company has something that MS wants. (patents, technology, shipping product)
the company poses a threat to MS's software monopoly.
Inprise qualifies on no 2 and maybe on no 3.
Anyway, as a customer of a company the only thing that is worse than a MS buy-in is a Computer Associates take-over (your product will be put on the back-burner , milked for all its worth and tossed aside)
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I'm sorry, but if your NT server is crashing after 2 days, your incompetent as an administrator.
Seems to me that there isn't a whole lot to administrate in NT. Where are you going to look if the thing crashes? Source code? Logs? Traces?
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You could write your own Java interpreter and call it Kaffe.....ooh, somebody already did that and even the super-trademark-protective Sun didn't sue them.
/translate it to executables.
So, there is a clear distinction between the language and the scaffolding needed to run a program
But the actual language has no license.
SABRE, WORLDSPAN, GALILEO and AMADEUS.
So SABRE is not a standard and it is not open. It is a reservation system.
And how anyone can release a markup language with a license, is completely beyond me. Imagine HTML having a license. Or C.
B: There are only three reasons for MS to invest in another company :
the other company has bigger margins than MS (very unlikely) or expects bigger (monopoly-like) margins in the future
the company has something that MS wants. (patents, technology, shipping product)
the company poses a threat to MS's software monopoly.
Inprise qualifies on no 2 and maybe on no 3.
Anyway, as a customer of a company the only thing that is worse than a MS buy-in is a Computer Associates take-over (your product will be put on the back-burner , milked for all its worth and tossed aside)
Seems to me that there isn't a whole lot to administrate in NT. Where are you going to look if the thing crashes? Source code? Logs? Traces?
The article was written by Andrew Schuman, not Andrew Schulman.
BIIIGGG difference.