Bob Mottram wrote:
2008/11/21 Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Battle-lines-forming-nascent-robotics/story.aspx?guid={FA2B30F1-B78B-4E33-91A4-F7F3D07DECCB}
...
Whether Microsoft can become a dominant player remains to be seen. To
date it has really had almost nothing to do with robotics, and
although MSRS has caused some excitement amongst hobbyists it hasn't
had much penetration in the automation market generally. Amongst
seasoned roboticists the Windows operating system continues to enjoy
an exceedingly poor reputation, at least as far as real time control
of machinery is concerned (GUIs and databases on the other hand are a
different matter).
Why are databases a different matter? It also deserves a poor
reputation in that area. In GUIs, well, it *IS* the one that most GUI
users are most familiar with, and so has *that* substantial advantage.
I wouldn't say that it's any better than Mac or KDE or Gnome, but it's
more familiar.
I suspect that database users also just don't have experience with
different systems. In my experience the only advantage MS databases
have are the GUI interface. This is much more important at very small
databases. And they have many disadvantages...though not so important
for really small databases.
The thing is, MS systems tend to be extremely inflexible. I.e., they
are flexible within their predefined fixed limitations, and outside of
that you need to constantly fight the system to get anywhere. To me
this doesn't sound like a good description of a robotics system.
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