Dave, Is there any specific reason you say the below? I mean everybody including me are working hard to keep up with the lastest technology personally and considering the economic situations. Are you advising that .NET is not that popular and the industry has not really accepted it? This would interesting to know.. Thanks Joe
> I wouldn't worry too much about .NET going anywhere in the near future. > Besides, Java is proprietary too, in many respects - it's largely > controlled > by Sun, never mind what they tell you about the "Java Community Process". > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 11:02 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Developer Platform suggestions was Re: Nice > > > > I just bought a 160 Gig external firewire -- it is faster > > than the laptop's 40 gig internal drive -- will firewire > > work on an intel box or do I need to get something else? > > Firewire works fine under Windows 2000, as long as your machine has a > Firewire port. Most new high-end laptops have them. There are add-on > Firewire cards for desktops and laptops. I use a Firewire DVD+RW burner on > two machines here - one Mac, one PC, and it works nicely with both. > > > I'd rather avoid a proprietary language -- especially if > > the owner is Microsoft-- if I am going to do this, I want > > to have the maximum exposure to accept profitable development > > opportunities and be at the smallest risk that my investment > > of $ and time can be held hostage by a software or hardware > > manufacturer -- that's the major reason to make the change. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > voice: (202) 797-5496 > fax: (202) 797-5444 > > ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists