Actually, I have been wondering about this question myself. Could someone give a concise answer? John Horst Herb wrote: > > Wayne Wilson wrote: > > > Well, last time today: > > > > Betrand Meyer on why .NET is the cat's pajama's. > > > > http://www.sdmagazine.com/articles/2000/0011/0011l/0011l.htm > > > > If I read this right, it says that .NET moves beyond inter-operability > > as defined by services described by IDL such as CORBA and COM, and > > defines that magic bullet of how to get components to really work. > > > > Sell that RedHat stock, Buy Corel and Microsoft :) > > > Now why would anybody voluntarily want to use this > vendor-lock-in-platform-dependend-non-standard-proprietary-"technology" > called ".NET"????? > > Horst
