On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Rob Hudson wrote: > I found his opinion of .net quite amusing. :)
[snip] 9. What is your opinion on .NET and do you think that it may be possible that .NET change the OS "map" as we know it? Matt Dillon: I believe .NET is Vapor. It's a marketing term dreamed up by Microsoft that will magically morph into whatever Microsoft eventually winds up delivering. MS announces grandiose ideas with cute catch phrases all the time, and as with any good vapor there is always some basis in truth (if only a little pinprick). The reality is a little different though... remember, these are the people that hyped windows-ME up the wazoo and all we got out of it was a speech-synthesized windows installation wizard! These are the people that called NT the unix-killer and told people it was as reliable as UNIX. .NOT is probably a more descriptive term for .NET. My guess is that it will turn into Microsoft-proprietary rent-a-service glue, and that it will introduce an order of magnitude more security issues then IIS. [/snip] -Chris
