You're not missing anything. It's just the typical sentationalist crap that gets spouted on Slashdot because of the number of "developers" (and I use that term VERY loosely) here who would rather attempt to shoot down other companies software than build their own.
My God, Microsoft has a site where you can download FULL versions of their software, and they require you to register before doing so!!!
Even worse, they are attempting to use a standardized authentication mechanism for their entire company!!!!
Somebody call in the lawyers, this has to be a conspiracy!
Maybe, if you had bothered to even find out what.NET was.
.NET has nothing to do with data security..NET has nothing to do with storing personal information online. If you ignorant of the difference between.NET and Hailstorm, then maybe you shouldn't spout off on it.
OMG! Someone on/. actually realized that Microsoft might finally be creating A Good Thing.
.NET is not about storing personal information on M$ servers. Hailstorm is about doing this, and is BUILT using M% technology. Saying.NET is a technology for storing personal information is like saying C++ is a technology for building flight simulators
.NET is about interoperability. It is a development system that can be ported to any platform and is designed to interoperate with other languages using OPEN STANDARDS (i.e. SOAP). This is A Good Thing.
Ok, so you coded something in a technology that for THREE YEARS microsoft has said is due to be replaced. They switched to RDO as their recommended data model 4 years ago. I believe it was 2 years ago that they introduced ADO. Now you complain that a solution you wrote using 6 year old technology doesn't work with the latest database?
Sorry, little sympathy here...if you choose to follow the Big Borg Bill, you MUST be prepared to be constantly learning. Microsoft has a big hard-on right now to catch up with some of the features available on other development platforms, and this means a constant learning curve for us Microserfs....
BTW...I almost never use buttons in VB. The project I support is the middle tier for a multi-tiered web app. Many programmers don't realize that VB has matured substantially ever since VB5 and can be very successfully used as much more than a simple form designer.
It is still a "junior" language in some respects, but I can whip out a data access object in VB twice as fast as in C++ and have it damn near as scalable as well. It's only in cases where we absolutely NEED blazingly fast performance or a high degree of processor control that we resort to C++...
That post was so incredibly misinformed I think it might have been a bad attempt at sarcasm.
Just in case it was serious, here are some clarifications:
1) Passport is not closely tied into.NET..NET describes an application architecture. Hailstorm is an application. You can create.NET applications without the use of passport or hailstorm.
2) Windows XP is not a.NET product. Windows XP is an OS that has support for running.NET applications.
Wow!
This comes as quite a shocker. A company that tried to sell a 20 year old operating system is slowly dropping off the face of the planet.
What a shame.
Linus, the 70s called...they want their operating system back.
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You're not missing anything. It's just the typical sentationalist crap that gets spouted on Slashdot because of the number of "developers" (and I use that term VERY loosely) here who would rather attempt to shoot down other companies software than build their own.
My God, Microsoft has a site where you can download FULL versions of their software, and they require you to register before doing so!!!
Even worse, they are attempting to use a standardized authentication mechanism for their entire company!!!!
Somebody call in the lawyers, this has to be a conspiracy!
Linux...they can't GIVE that crap away!
Maybe, if you had bothered to even find out what .NET was.
.NET has nothing to do with data security. .NET has nothing to do with storing personal information online. If you ignorant of the difference between .NET and Hailstorm, then maybe you shouldn't spout off on it.
OMG! Someone on /. actually realized that Microsoft might finally be creating A Good Thing.
.NET is not about storing personal information on M$ servers. Hailstorm is about doing this, and is BUILT using M% technology. Saying .NET is a technology for storing personal information is like saying C++ is a technology for building flight simulators
.NET is about interoperability. It is a development system that can be ported to any platform and is designed to interoperate with other languages using OPEN STANDARDS (i.e. SOAP). This is A Good Thing.
Ok, so you coded something in a technology that for THREE YEARS microsoft has said is due to be replaced. They switched to RDO as their recommended data model 4 years ago. I believe it was 2 years ago that they introduced ADO. Now you complain that a solution you wrote using 6 year old technology doesn't work with the latest database?
Sorry, little sympathy here...if you choose to follow the Big Borg Bill, you MUST be prepared to be constantly learning. Microsoft has a big hard-on right now to catch up with some of the features available on other development platforms, and this means a constant learning curve for us Microserfs....
BTW...I almost never use buttons in VB. The project I support is the middle tier for a multi-tiered web app. Many programmers don't realize that VB has matured substantially ever since VB5 and can be very successfully used as much more than a simple form designer.
It is still a "junior" language in some respects, but I can whip out a data access object in VB twice as fast as in C++ and have it damn near as scalable as well. It's only in cases where we absolutely NEED blazingly fast performance or a high degree of processor control that we resort to C++...
Oh yeah, COM+ didn't work and didn't scale.
I call bullshit.
Apparently you haven't been to the transaction processing council's benchmark page recently?
COM+ and SQL Server 2000 currently hold 9 of the top 10 benchmark results for the TCP-C Clustered results.
Don't make comments you can't back up.
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That post was so incredibly misinformed I think it might have been a bad attempt at sarcasm. Just in case it was serious, here are some clarifications: 1) Passport is not closely tied into .NET. .NET describes an application architecture. Hailstorm is an application. You can create .NET applications without the use of passport or hailstorm.
2) Windows XP is not a .NET product. Windows XP is an OS that has support for running .NET applications.
Wow! This comes as quite a shocker. A company that tried to sell a 20 year old operating system is slowly dropping off the face of the planet. What a shame. Linus, the 70s called...they want their operating system back.