At 11:44 7/2/01 -0800, James Duncan Davidson wrote:
>On 2/7/01 8:18 AM, "Eric Hancock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> That is not the best way to do business, though. One of Microsoft's vast
>> strengths is its ability to come to the show late, but end up dominating a
>> market or technology. Few of their products are in-house innovations;
>> many, many are improvements of prior work. In fact, there is so little new
>> in Java that it can really be seen as a shameless rip-off of features from
>> Objective C, C++, ADA, Eiffel, etc...
>>
>> If the industry standardizes on open, distributed computing based on XML
>> message passing, that would be a good thing. Of course, Sun will most
>> likely try to 'embrace and extend,' ala MS.
>
>Note Sun embraced Apache, Bind, NFS, Sendmail, or any of the dozens of base
>Unix and/or internet standards that Solaris implements now -- without having
>extended them. With having only touched the code for them to port and tweak
>security/performance/whatever about as much as any Linux distribution does.
>I don't see a track record of "embrace and extend ala MS" here.
Even better - Sun will generally open up their technologies to others and
allow competing implementations. Sooooo much better than certain other
vendors ;)
Cheers,
Pete
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