[DUG] Skill shortage?

[Neven MacEwan]

David

This is exactly my point, .Net was a reaction to Java, XAML is reactive 
to XUL, Freedom to inovate, bullshit, I also find in hilarious that 
people who buy into the M$ justify it on the consistency of supply where
recent history would indicate the opposite

What I love about OS dev products is changes are total demand driven 
with no subtext

n


David Brennan wrote:
> 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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