Foxpro and .NET are both application frameworks and Linux is an OS. It seem applications are moving towards becoming OS agnostic, which would make the OS less relevant than in the past. This allow the developer to write the application without worrying about the OS problem. An application written to use the Apache Web Server, the MySQL database Server, and the PHP business layer which would stream html, xhtml, and CSS to the clients browser for presentation of the GUI is an example of an application that is OS agnostic, as the Apache Web Server, MySQL, and PHP runs across a wide range of OS(s) and can be consumed by most browsers regardless of the client's desktop computer OS. There are also a number of OS agnostic frameworks for building AJAX rich client applications, and Flash MX and Cold Fusion also make for applications that are OS agnostic.
Languages developed by the Open Source community like perl, php, python and ruby are OS agnostic, but both foxpro and .NET frameworks are dependent on Windows. The interest and growth of OS agnostic languages and applications, including JAVA, is probably why Micorsoft developed C#, and then made C# open, so C# would become a language that is OS agnostic. Regards, LelandJ Ted Roche wrote: > Flame war to keep us warm today: > > >From Ed Foster's Gripeline: > > "One long-time reader -- by no means a Microsoft apologist -- recently > crystallized the issue this way in pondering Windows security > concerns. "My staff and I talk about this a lot, because we are > spending so much time updating and fighting the security battle," the > reader wrote. "But I have to tell you, as a Linux user on the side > myself, you could not make me move our users to Linux. The > applications simply are not there. And on the developer side, I am > immersing myself in C#, Visual Studio, and SQL 2005 now into the > summer, preparing to rewrite all my apps and move them in that > direction from Visual FoxPro. There is nothing, and I mean that > honestly, nothing in the Linux world that can match the rich GUI and > feature interface of these tools, no matter what the downsides, of > which there are plenty as well. But on balance, my decision has been > made." > > http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2007/6/5/03235/96551 > > Compare and contrast with: > > http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm > > Note the graph below the the table. I think the authors of Tiobe miss > a great opportunity to do a little math: what do the slopes of those > curves (smoothed out, obviously) look like? Who's rising? Who's > falling? And by what magnitude. There's the news! > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
