[fpc-pascal] opendelphi.org

[Florian Klaempfl]

Adriaan van Os wrote:
> 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."

I know this analysis but before I throw it into a discussion I wanted to wait
for the Vista release if it's the same :)