"John S. Gage" wrote: > > Actually, I have been wondering about this question myself. Could > someone give a concise answer? > John > > Horst Herb wrote: > > > > > Now why would anybody voluntarily want to use this > > vendor-lock-in-platform-dependend-non-standard-proprietary-"technology" > > called ".NET"????? > > > Here it is: Grant that MS will get ports of IL to other platforms. Multiple language integration is already there (the java folks will of course sit this out, but someone will create a translator/compiler - just like for eiffel which has java or C as a target). XML as meta-data delivery mechanism. VOS as universal abstract object model. ==> Multi-language, multi-platform plug together components. This sounds very attractive, comes from a market leading vendor and seems to address their historic closed nature. Why does this feel wrong to so many then? 1) Distrust of Microsoft 2) This stuff lives in another culture: it's technical artifacts are completely different from what the open source community uses; it's profit model is selling/leasing code rather then selling/leasing expertise to build freely available code.
