Hello, Some tech sites covered today's Xamlon 1.0 release with some commentary.
internetnews.com writes: XAML is Microsoft's proprietary extension to the XML standard, and Colton said that it's not clear whether his company might face the need to license Microsoft's tech in the future. Microsoft's licensing plans for XAML remain vague, said O'Kelly. "This will be interesting litmus test for Microsoft," he said. "Will they put it into open source? If Microsoft says, 'This is important for developers, and we're putting heavy IP protection on it,' a lot of developers will have problems with it." Sax wasn't sure how much of a future Xamlon has against upcoming developer toolsets. "Visual Studio will probably eclipse Xamlon as a development tool for building XAML apps, and now that Avalon will be available on older versions of Windows, the runtime loses much of its appeal." He said Xamlon could help move XAML to other platforms, especially the Mono project, an open source application that lets Linux, UNIX and other Mono-supported platform programmers create .NET apps. "It's not our goal to compete with Microsoft," Colton said. He figures the company has two years to sell development tools before Microsoft enables XAML development in Visual Studio and Longhorn. He plans to continue to advance the tools, then move the company's offerings toward training and support. "They're giving us this great lead time to hone our tools," he said. O'Kelly said the faster developers start working with XAML, the better for Microsoft. "The more people who can explore something and provide feedback, the better it will be." Source: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3416551 What's your take? Are you ready to jump on the XAML bandwagon? Do you think Xamlon can beat Microsoft? - Gerald --------------------------- Gerald Bauer Rich Client Conference (RichCon) 2005 - http://richcon.com XUL News Wire - http://xulnews.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
