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[Adriaan van Os]

Vinzent Hoefler wrote:

> Bisma Jayadi wrote:
>
>> IMO, .Net is just a bussiness buzz from M$ to attract their customers
>> and prevent them from switching to Un*x systems. Speaking
>> technically, I saw nothing new in the .Net technology. It's just a
>> combination of Java (on the system architecture) and Delphi
>> technology (on the system language), with extra resource requirements
>> as the consequences. :p
>
> Frankly, all that stuff is still early 80s technology at best. Back 
> then
> they just hadn't the computing power to actually do it.
>
> Information technology hasn't changed too much since then. They just
> invented a lot of new TLAs[0]. The only question is who has the better
> sales people hired.

 From slashdot <http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/03/16/0015253.shtml>

In a classic example of "Do as I say, not as I do", Richard Grimes 
analyses the ratio of native to managed code in Microsoft's upcoming 
Vista Operating System. According to the analysis at Microsoft Vista 
and .NET, "Microsoft appears to have concentrated their development 
effort in Vista on native code development. Vista has no services 
implemented in .NET and Windows Explorer does not host the runtime, 
which means that the Vista desktop shell is not based on the .NET 
runtime. The only conclusion that can be made from these results is 
that between PDC 2003 and the release of Vista Beta 1 Microsoft has 
decided that it is better to use native code for the operating system, 
than to use the .NET framework."

Regards,

Adriaan van Os