> Who wants to hazard a guess at how much such an effort should really cost?
I would first ask how they added things up to get to $2Billion.....but then does it really matter they probably pay their accountants and lawyers more than the GNP of most small countries. Ah...... but what we could do with that kind of money.... Joseph ------- Joseph Dal Molin e-cology corporation www.e-cology.ca 1.416.232.1206 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Beale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OSHCA List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 11:39 PM Subject: .net cost > > Something I had not really taken in before, although it's old news: from > the site http://www.dotnetexperts.com/ > > The result of a $2 billion investment, .NET is a revolutionary > multi-language platform covering all aspects of application development > and closely integrating the Web at every step. > > I like the way this is trumpeted as an achievement. I would call an > expenditure of that magnitude just to get a distribution framework going > a joke. But maybe I have a strange sense of humour... > > Who wants to hazard a guess at how much such an effort should really cost? > > - thomas beale > > >
