> Short answer: YES!
>
> My take on this situation is as follows:
>
> 1. Microsoft has already been bitten once having to support multiple
> architectures (see Alpha and MIPS), and to avoid this problem in the future
> (see x86-64 and IA-64) they hace created .NET as a platform neutral
> environment.
Unless .NET can run a great deal faster than Java, then this is a
very risky strategy. A port of Linux to x86-64/IA-64 would allow developers
to create native applications (open office) that would run rings around
.NET applications compiled to CLR.
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