Sure, he's not marketing driven, he said as much in the interview, he's only concerned about technical matters...Hoo hah, excellent..But we shouldn't try to pass this off as interesting.
I don't think that he was trying to pass this off as interesting; OSNews was trying to pass this off as interesting in order to get hits from all the Linux zealots who hang on every word of the Great Leader.
Maybe the hero worship aided by the crass commercialization is behind him not caring.
I can't agree with "99.9% of all SQL uses do not need an upgrade past 6.5 there is absolutely no need to unless when you need those super advanced added features".
SQL Server 7 made my life much easier with "advanced added features" like being able to modify tables on the fly (so I can avoid exporting data, dropping the table, adding the table with the new schema, importing data) and dealing with logfiles in a saner manner.
That said, I don't see a huge improvement from 7 to 2000; nicer development tools, but nothing worth the upgrade for existing servers.
Seeing all the expected flamage over the issue makes me wonder how many people posting actually know anything about coding Win32 Perl... ActiveState (under other names) was initially tasked and paid by MS to make a better Perl port to NT (so getting more funding to do more work shouldn't be chilling or even surprising) - this being back before the standard source wouldn't build particulaly well with NT compilers.
Having a clean installer (along with the bonuses of being able to twiddle with the registry and such) makes scripting on Windows boxes so much nicer, particularly when I want to ship out some nice utility to a friend or client that doesn't have a compiler and if they did wouldn't know what to do with it.
But hey, the article mentions MS, so let the knee-jerk reactions continue.
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instead of having the regular recycled net material, I would like to hear opinions and thoughts on how it should and could work
In the past month, how many front page posts have there been concerning DRM, and how many times have the same opnions been hashed and rehashed here?
I am working on a thesis regarding DRM (Digital Rights Management). I would like to get it published
I really hope this is just a troll. Having Slashdot do your coursework is lame, lame, lame.
Sure, he's not marketing driven, he said as much in the interview, he's only concerned about technical matters...Hoo hah, excellent..But we shouldn't try to pass this off as interesting.
I don't think that he was trying to pass this off as interesting; OSNews was trying to pass this off as interesting in order to get hits from all the Linux zealots who hang on every word of the Great Leader.
Maybe the hero worship aided by the crass commercialization is behind him not caring.
I can't agree with "99.9% of all SQL uses do not need an upgrade past 6.5 there is absolutely no need to unless when you need those super advanced added features".
SQL Server 7 made my life much easier with "advanced added features" like being able to modify tables on the fly (so I can avoid exporting data, dropping the table, adding the table with the new schema, importing data) and dealing with logfiles in a saner manner.
That said, I don't see a huge improvement from 7 to 2000; nicer development tools, but nothing worth the upgrade for existing servers.
That was the product they were producing in Douglas Coupland's _Microserfs_. Fun book, and Wired has an excerpt up in the archives.
Windows Scripting Host is what they're calling #2 now ... active-x interface so vbscript, jscript, and perlscript can wreak havoc outside the browser.
Seeing all the expected flamage over the issue makes me wonder how many people posting actually know anything about coding Win32 Perl ... ActiveState (under other names) was initially tasked and paid by MS to make a better Perl port to NT (so getting more funding to do more work shouldn't be chilling or even surprising) - this being back before the standard source wouldn't build particulaly well with NT compilers.
Having a clean installer (along with the bonuses of being able to twiddle with the registry and such) makes scripting on Windows boxes so much nicer, particularly when I want to ship out some nice utility to a friend or client that doesn't have a compiler and if they did wouldn't know what to do with it.
But hey, the article mentions MS, so let the knee-jerk reactions continue.