Pardon this off-topic item, but I know there's a lot of Linux fans on this list, and any news about people leaving Microsoft-only development to include other OSes is good news for MetaCard fans: Microsoft Losing developers to Java, Linux Two recent studies support the trend: According to the Gartner Group, the number of programmers targeting Windows as their primary development environment will fall from 65 percent in 1998 to 40 percent next year. At the same time, developers writing browser-based software will rise from 18 percent to 40 percent.... Another study by Forrester Research found that programmers using the Java and CORBA (common object request broker architecture) programming models outnumber those targeting Microsoft's COM programming model by nearly a 2-to-1 margin: 44 percent to 24 percent. See the full story at: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,40384,00.html?st.ne.fd.gif.l - Richard Gaskin Fourth World Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web _____________________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com US: 800-288-5825 Int'l: 323-225-3717 Fax: 323-225-0716
