[MS buying a stake in Corel, and what it means, esp. viz. .net]
I saw a recent discussion of this on slashdot recently.
Contained there are a number of interesting posts, basically along the lines
of 'looking at chicken entrails'.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/12/1454212&mode=thread
An interesting view of some of the things purported to be in .net,
(also got this from slashdot) is at
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/research/mercury/information/dotnet/mercury_and_dotnet.html
This is from the mercury language group at Monash uni. (Mercury is
a functional language.)
Also, I found this, might be of use:
http://www.objectwatch.com/issue_29.htm
My take?
Well, sometimes the chicken entrails tell me it looks like an attack on
Sun's Java. Perhaps a reaction to Star Office (source recently released
as GPL)? Star Office does an excellent job of handling those legacy
spreadsheet and document formats.
Or maybe it's an attempt to project the idea that
MS has some fantastic new technology, so stop looking at that Linux
stuff, look over here at us.
The cross platform server systems must be a worry to MS. The top end
servers doesn't look good for MS. And game consoles, well that's
a worry too. Hence Xbox.
Where does the future lie? The crystal ball fogs up.
One little device, but still too expensive, is intriguing.
http://www.egnite.de/ethernut/
I'm convinced we will see a plethora of 'tiny devices',
interconnected.
Jamie
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