[DUG] Skill shortage?

[David Brennan]

It is a danger with .NET. Compare with Internet Explorer. IE got mega bucks
thrown at it by Microsoft because they perceived a threat that Netscape
could eventually provide an alternative to the Windows platform by having a
multi-platform rich interface web browser. 

Once Microsoft had strangled Netscape and ensure market dominance they
suddenly killed IE development. Almost all of the new technologies which had
been under development for a richer browser environment were effectively put
on hold at the same time... which was probably Microsoft's plan from the
start. 

I see some parallels here. Java was getting too much popularity behind it
and it's cross platform nature and rich interface potential was/is a serious
threat. So .NET is unleashed upon the world.

The difference is that Java isn't likely to die like Netscape did. So
Microsoft may end up having to push .NET as their long term solution rather
than just using it for a single battle. Only time will tell I guess.

David.-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of Neven MacEwan
Sent: Friday, 15 July 2005 1:06 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Skill shortage?

RE:

> There are some big shops still using as far as I can tell, but a lot have
> moved to .NET over the last 2 years.

Now that M$ have sucessfully used .net to restrict Java in the 
middleware area, will they focus on the UI again and push XAML

In which case these guys will have to move again

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