I found this to be an interesting article since I gave up on native Windows coding in the 90s.
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/microsoft-learn-from-apple-II.ars It also reminded me of a Java project a few years ago where we had a Solaris workstation delivered and the IT department missed an OS patch which resulted in some network throughput problems. There was another group doing only native Windows development and you should have seen them climb all over us for using Java and Solaris and saying how wrong that was and how better Windows was. I'm serious. When I told them that in the 10 months I was on the project, none of our development dealt with OS issues or work arounds and was pretty much all domain specific development. I asked if they could say the same and they shut up and left the area. I think this article relates to how much better for everyone it is when the software stack under the developer is designed for the developer. And I mean to improve the developers job, not to use the developer as a tool to keep marketshare or platform lockin. Doug -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
