>Porting .NET to Linux will definitely help Microsoft. Perhaps not >in direct Windows sales, but in the platform war against Java. > >Microsoft is already heavily involved in adding .NET support for >Python, Ruby, etc. Back in 2000 my university was funded by >Microsoft to port our Mercury programming language to .NET. > >An increased .NET marketshare, will certainly benefit Microsoft.
Yes.. its very true.. there is this possibility also.. it will provide a very good chance for all .NET developers to embrace linux.. existing of mono-develop and sharp-develop will make them dump visual studio for small and medium projects.. Windows sales will be dropped, the VStudio sales would be dropped, if the Mono matures in to stable product.. But in overall, the benefit to microsoft is more than losses.. Hence i suggested Ruby on Rails for the final year engineering students for doing their project.. (earlier i was thinking of suggesting .NET in Mono) I went thru the .NET architecture.. the main advantage of CLR format in .NET is that its converted to native code the first time it is executed, and all subsequent runs will use the compiled code.. but the java byte code is compiled everytime it was run.. Cant Java fill this gap easily? Regards, Senthil _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
