<quote who="Stuart Guthrie"> > You are dealing with experts in slipperiness. The platform they want all > web services to end up on is Windows. I seem to recall a version of Java > called 'J++' from Microsoft. You might just find that future 'standard' > stuff starts requiring this and that from a MS only component. Within a > couple of years you have to embrace their version if you _really want it > to run on windows. Eventually you have to toss your open version as it is > too hard to do 'write once run anywhere'. Does this sound familiar?
But you're missing the point. There are already MS-only .NET components. There are already MS-only, patent-encumbered, not-taken-to-standards-body components. It's not like they're playing the embrace-and-extend game - it is their technology; of course there are reasons to stick with MS... .. but it is *great* to hack on, and we have our own ECMA standards based platform. So who cares what they do? (It is roughly equivalent to using C++, or JavaScript. If you have your own implementation, great. It is not a largely proprietary and non-industry standards based option, such as...) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ Wake up and smell the penguin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
