[DUG] Presentation in Christchurch - any other meetings in Chch?

[Conor Boyd]

Desktop PCs, maybe.
 
However, in the industry we're in, we're developing a grunty app that
we'd like to run on a grunty 64-bit server, and be able to use lots of
mem to get round disk i/o bottlenecks.
 
That's why we are hanging out for 64-bit.
 
And would be prepared to pay for it.
 
C.

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Subject: Re: [DUG] Presentation in Christchurch - any other meetings in
Chch?


I think a lot of you are being short sighted.  Just my opinion.
 
I lived through the mini-computer era, using Digital Equipment
mini-computers with RT-11 and VMS - both really good operating systems,
and thought at the time if they started selling VMS for a few $100
rather than thousands they may have captured the mini-computer market as
it was way superior to MS-DOS, instead they didn't adapt and got
clobbered by Microsoft to the extent the company and the platform does
not even exist now.
 
Its a less certain thing as its still the future, but its my guess
likely in 5 years netbooks/laptops and mobile and phone OS will largely
kill desktop PCs and in time likely Windows too, as there is not much
sign they will be the leading candidate for mobile devices in 5 years.
Hence the more cross platform and new UI (read touchscreen) enabled a
language is the better positioned it will be.
 
Also apps are moving more to be web enabled, where the UI is done by the
browser instead, so this also is not really tied to one OS.  There are
only a few good frameworks that run across many OS's - think
Firefox/Thunderbird (XUL) and Safari/Itunes etc.  As far as I can gather
none of these are remotely easy for new programmers to jump into.
 
Thats why I reckon Delphi as a cross platform simple UI language could
be a killer, and why its worth doing even if it is not too easy.
 
John
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