I haven't even looked at the .NET stuff yet....so this FLAME may be unwarranted in the .NET case,. It is interesting that the same industry players that made it difficult to integrate are now planning to make money integrating what they disintegrated.....sound familiar? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Horst Herb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 6:23 AM Subject: Re: .NET > 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 > >
