Essa Microsoft vai ter que correr muito pra tomar o
espaco da linguagem Java. Principalmente se continuar
oferecendo solucoes proprietarias e se esse tal de
de C# nao for multiplataforma.
Andre.
--- Javanes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> MS-C# X Sun-Java
> http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000622S0013
> Microsoft's Web Language
>
> Due Next Week
> (06/22/00, 7:21 p.m. ET) By Elizabeth
> Montalbano, CRN
>
> Microsoft on Monday will unveil a
> programming language aimed at
> improving
> productivity for the development of
> Web
> applications.
>
> Initial reports indicate the new
> language, a
> hybrid of C and C++ called C#
> (pronounced cee-sharp), behaves much
> like Java, Sun Microsystems'
> technology
> for cross-platform development. But
> Microsoft (stock: MSFT) executives
> insist
> C# does nothing of the kind.
>
> "It's very different from Java," said
> David
> Lazar, a product manager at Microsoft,
> Redmond, Wash. "Java is trying to
> solve a
> different problem. [It] has
> applications
> running in different places. What
> customers really want is to get all of
> their
> applications running in one place, and
> this
> is what C# [enables them to do]."
>
> Tony Goodhew, Visual C++ Microsoft
> product manager, concurs that C# is in
> no
> way a response to Java. It is designed
> to
> give developers a faster and better
> way to
> build Web applications in the
> tradition of
> C and C++ programming languages, he
> said.
>
> "C# is designed to provide
> [developers]
> with a highly productive way of
> building
> applications and components for the
> Web
> services world," Goodhew said. "C and
> C++ developers tell us they want more
> productivity, but they want to stay
> close to
> that heritage and have more power and
> control. C# gives you better
> productivity,
> but allows you to leverage the full
> power
> of the [Internet] platform."
>
> Goodhew would not comment on whether
> C#, like Java, is a cross-platform
> language. This is an important point
> to
> consider, however, in the development
> of
> Web applications, said Scott Hebner,
> director of e-business technology
> marketing at IBM's software group,
> Armonk, N.Y.
>
> Hebner said that if Microsoft wants to
> push C# as a viable new Web
> application
> development technology, the language
> must be able to develop applications
> that
> can operate outside of Microsoft's
> Windows.
>
> "The value of the Internet is that
> it's based
> on open standards -- it's
> vendor-neutral,"
> Hebner said. "If the result of the
> [C#]
> technology is that it locks you into a
> particular operating system
> environment
> or becomes a control point of a
> vendor,
> that's not consistent with that value.
> In
> order for Microsoft to be keeping in
> line
> with current development, C# must be
> able to create applications for
> platforms
> outside just a Windows operating
> environment."
>
> Despite the assertions of Microsoft
> executives, if C# is indeed a
> programming
> language that can create business
> logic for
> Web applications, it in essence is
> doing
> what Java does, Hebner said.
>
> "The question becomes then: Why aren't
> you moving your developers to Java?"
> Hebner said. "In the final analysis,
> they've
> created another alternative language
> when
> they should've gone to the de facto
> standard [for deploying Web
> applications], which is Java."
>
> Microsoft's use of Java is currently
> limited by a lawsuit with Sun (stock:
> SUNW) over Java licensing. In 1997,
> Sun
> sued Microsoft for allegedly breaching
> its
> Java licensing agreement by
> "polluting"
> Java to create programs that run only
> on
> Windows when Java was created to be
> compatible with all operating systems.
>
>
> Sun will not comment on C# until it
> actually knows what the new technology
> is, a company spokesman said.
>
> "At this time, there's nothing for us
> to look
> at, there's no specification," he
> said.
>
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