On 03-Aug-2000, Erik Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Not "at least" but "only". I haven't heard of plans for .NET on any
> > non-Windows platform.
>
> Then you should listen more closely! a quote from the .NET whitepaper:
>
> Microsoft .NET proactively adapts to what you
> want to do, on any of your devices. This inversion
> of the traditional installation-dependent application
> model is a necessity in a world where users will
> enjoy the benefits of services on multiple devices.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/net/
I interpreted this as marketing speak for "It will run on WinCE".
I have never ever heard specific mention of Microsoft developing any of
the .NET stuff to run on a non-Windows platform.
However Microsoft does have plans to standardize large parts of the
.NET architecture. I would expect that alternate implementations on
other platforms would be part of the standardization process.
Of course they would probably get some other company to do that.
I think Microsoft believes it might be a feather in their cap to
standardize C# and the .NET framework very quickly, to contrast with the
apparently slow progress in standardizing Java.
Whether this leads to viable implementations on other platforms is of
course a completely different question.
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