Market consolidation will not help anyone in this case and no, this will not get anyone off their butt and think about buying other tools. Well, ok maybe some would, but not in the business place. If M$FT buys Borland and pulls the plug on "products that are not in the core business" then those who can't just stick with an old version will be forced to move to M$FT approved development tools.
Re:Are their servers anyway. So lets make our own.
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Is there an open source project to make an Instant messanger ? Also could the open source community support a simple server to provide simple lookup services for such a project ? I think this is the way to go.
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Market consolidation will not help anyone in this case and no, this will not get anyone off their butt and think about buying other tools. Well, ok maybe some would, but not in the business place. If M$FT buys Borland and pulls the plug on "products that are not in the core business" then those who can't just stick with an old version will be forced to move to M$FT approved development tools.
Is there an open source project to make an Instant messanger ? Also could the open source community support a simple server to provide simple lookup services for such a project ? I think this is the way to go.