Indeed! This was what the famous recruiting lawsuits between Borland & Microsoft. Between Paul Gross and Anders Hejlsberg, the VP and chief designer of Delphi, it's not unlikely.
Indeed, he does know exactly what he was talking about. After all,
Anders Hejlsberg the inventor of Delphi, heads the whole dotnet project.
" Microsoft offered Anders Hejlsberg a signing bonus of $1.5 million and stock options. Microsoft doubled the bonus to $3 million after Borland made a counter-offer. Hejlsberg left Borland in October 1996."
Parent wrote: " You forget the fact that companies that have vested interests in killing Java *cough* a certain Seattle based company *cough* could use this against Java."
You're trolling, aren't you.
Microsoft cares infinitely more about Linux than Java, and that's hardly fragmented at all (except in the tiny-embedded space, and not even that muhc there).
I've personally heard someone rather high up in microsoft say that they're not afraid of any corporation competeing with them, because they know all the techniques to compete there. It's the GPL that they care about, because even if they do buy the company, the software's still out there and the original team can keep working on it.
percentage-wise, we'd be the same species as some apes -- if we consider how some very different types of bugs (mosquitos in this areas; killer bees & honey bees; etc) can cross-fertalize each other.
Percentage-wise we're closer than horses and donkeys (which make infertile mules yet fertile asses)
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Or, as about.com puts it: MS's .Net IS Borland's Product
" Microsoft offered Anders Hejlsberg a signing bonus of $1.5 million and stock options. Microsoft doubled the bonus to $3 million after Borland made a counter-offer. Hejlsberg left Borland in October 1996."
You're trolling, aren't you.
Microsoft cares infinitely more about Linux than Java, and that's hardly fragmented at all (except in the tiny-embedded space, and not even that muhc there).
I've personally heard someone rather high up in microsoft say that they're not afraid of any corporation competeing with them, because they know all the techniques to compete there. It's the GPL that they care about, because even if they do buy the company, the software's still out there and the original team can keep working on it.
Ouch.
percentage-wise, we'd be the same species as some apes -- if we consider how some very different types of bugs (mosquitos in this areas; killer bees & honey bees; etc) can cross-fertalize each other. Percentage-wise we're closer than horses and donkeys (which make infertile mules yet fertile asses)