RE: RE: MS CF? (getting OT)

2002-12-24 Thread Matt Liotta
If you reread my message you will see that I specified bond funds; not
bonds. Unlike bonds, bond funds offer daily liquidity the same as any
mutual fund.

Matt Liotta
President & CEO
Montara Software, Inc.
http://www.montarasoftware.com/
888-408-0900 x901

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 4:08 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: RE: MS CF? (getting OT)
> 
> I don't remember the exact reasoning (something to do with the value
of
> bonds and the rates they mature at being tied to the economy), but I
do
> remember hearing on public radio ( Fresh Air I think ) that the leap a
lot
> of people have been making to Bonds may actually be a bad thing. Iirc
what
> they said was -- having / buying bonds isn't such a bad thing, but you
> shouldn't put too much of your portfolio into them because there's a
good
> chance that they will not produce the desired stability that people
are
> buying them for. So if you're heavy in bonds in the hope they'll be
> stable, it's possible you might wind up with a rude awakening as they
fail
> to mature on time.
> 
> Original Message ---
> We sold off our equity positions in 2000 and moved the money into bond
> funds.
> 
> Matt Liotta
> President & CEO
> Montara Software, Inc.
> http://www.montarasoftware.com/
> 888-408-0900 x901
> 
> > -Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:52 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF? (getting OT)
> >
> > Where are all the "winners" now?
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Luce, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:42 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF? (getting OT)
> >
> >
> > I could ask the guys on the trading floor for their opinion, but I
> don't
> > think I have to. I guess I should have specified "Investing in the
> stock
> > market to make money" as opposed to just "The stock market". I
didn't
> know
> > there was a different way to look at it though. Perhaps that
explains
> some
> > things. Throughout the 90s I wondered how "everyone" was winning.
Now
> I
> > see
> > there is a whole other segment. I wondered who was losing.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:33 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF? (getting OT)
> >
> >
> > Funny, I was under the impression the stock market was about stock.
If
> I
> > am
> > not mistaken when you buy stock you are buying a piece of the
company
> -
> > therefore, you are saying "I like what this company is doing I am
> going to
> > give them money so they can do what they are doing some more." -
> weather
> > you
> > mean to or not.
> >
> > It has become a Las Vegas type institution where most don't care
where
> > their
> > "vote" is going, but it goes none-the-less.
> >
> > Thank you for your good luck wishes, but from the tone of your
reply,
> I
> > think you will need the luck more then I will.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Luce, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:14 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > The Stock Market is all about money. That's the first rule of
> investing.
> > Buying or selling stocks based on any other ideas is just silly.
Good
> luck
> > with that.
> >
> > Greg
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:58 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless there
is
> an
> > amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I like
> their
> > business practices, think they have good products, and approve of
how
> they
> > treat their staff.
> >
> > Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the end how
> you
> > run
> > your business is how you wind up being treated - in this world or
the
> > next.
> >
> > I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and I think
> they
> > are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but that is
all
&g

RE: RE: MS CF? (getting OT)

2002-12-24 Thread info
I don't remember the exact reasoning (something to do with the value of bonds and the 
rates they mature at being tied to the economy), but I do remember hearing on public 
radio ( Fresh Air I think ) that the leap a lot of people have been making to Bonds 
may actually be a bad thing. Iirc what they said was -- having / buying bonds isn't 
such a bad thing, but you shouldn't put too much of your portfolio into them because 
there's a good chance that they will not produce the desired stability that people are 
buying them for. So if you're heavy in bonds in the hope they'll be stable, it's 
possible you might wind up with a rude awakening as they fail to mature on time. 

Original Message ---
We sold off our equity positions in 2000 and moved the money into bond
funds.

Matt Liotta
President & CEO
Montara Software, Inc.
http://www.montarasoftware.com/
888-408-0900 x901

> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:52 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF? (getting OT)
> 
> Where are all the "winners" now?
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Luce, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:42 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF? (getting OT)
> 
> 
> I could ask the guys on the trading floor for their opinion, but I
don't
> think I have to. I guess I should have specified "Investing in the
stock
> market to make money" as opposed to just "The stock market". I didn't
know
> there was a different way to look at it though. Perhaps that explains
some
> things. Throughout the 90s I wondered how "everyone" was winning. Now
I
> see
> there is a whole other segment. I wondered who was losing.
> 
> Greg
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:33 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF? (getting OT)
> 
> 
> Funny, I was under the impression the stock market was about stock. If
I
> am
> not mistaken when you buy stock you are buying a piece of the company
-
> therefore, you are saying "I like what this company is doing I am
going to
> give them money so they can do what they are doing some more." -
weather
> you
> mean to or not.
> 
> It has become a Las Vegas type institution where most don't care where
> their
> "vote" is going, but it goes none-the-less.
> 
> Thank you for your good luck wishes, but from the tone of your reply,
I
> think you will need the luck more then I will.
> 
> Rob
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Luce, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:14 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> The Stock Market is all about money. That's the first rule of
investing.
> Buying or selling stocks based on any other ideas is just silly. Good
luck
> with that.
> 
> Greg
> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:58 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless there is
an
> amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I like
their
> business practices, think they have good products, and approve of how
they
> treat their staff.
> 
> Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the end how
you
> run
> your business is how you wind up being treated - in this world or the
> next.
> 
> I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and I think
they
> are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but that is all
they
> do.
> 
> Plus I sleep *really* well.
> 
> ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have put
value
> on.
> 
> (If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
> Rob
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but wouldn't you
make
> out
> well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in exchange
for
> your
> $11 MM shares?
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
> >
> > Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > -Original Messa

RE: RE: MS CF?

2002-12-24 Thread info
Original Message ---
You can sit here and complain that MS is the bad guy, but they are not
the company you have put your faith in. I know I have the unpopular view
on this list as anti-MM, but I can tell you that if MS owned Flash, you
wouldn't have to worry about it being sold again. Same goes for Cold
Fusion. You could rest assured that the technology and education you put
into MS will still be viable in 20 years. 

-

Like COM? 

I do agree a wide skill set is good. I often wish I had more hours in the day to work 
with Java and PHP, but I seem to be able to consistently keep myself busy creating new 
things and new ways to do things with the 4-5 languages I use primarily ( CF, SQL, 
Javascript, HTML/CSS ) --  I like Flash also, but haven't yet seen any reasonably 
accessible / easy ways to accomplish many of the things I do with CF and dhtml. As a 
result, if I had to lose one (not that I'd want to lose either), I'd rather lose the 
one that MS is less likely to abandon if they were to acquire MM, but I think you're 
right, I think a Sun counter-buyout is probably more likely. I'd be a little surprised 
by a buyout from either IBM or Oracle because I see them as having less to gain by 
preserving an abstraction for the Java language which makes it more accessible to the 
general populace. Both companies to me seem to bank largely against the idea that 
anything should be done in a simple / easy manner.

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RE: RE: MS CF?

2002-12-24 Thread info
I think the point was that he's not willing to or interrested in earning money at the 
expense of his principals, and so while he invests with the hope of earning money, 
he's not willing to invest in companies which he sees compromising those principals. 
How far are you willing to go to earn your money? Are you willing to kill for it? Are 
you willing to support people who kill for it as long as you don't have to do the 
killing yourself? Are you willing to support the practices of companies which 
encourage things like the Etheopean famine of the 80's which was caused in large part 
by the policies of the WTO? If you believe that tobacco products are harmful not only 
to smokers but to others as well, do you continue to invest in tobacco companies if 
you think they'll make you money? Or do you preserve your own principals at the 
expense of money possibly gained? I agree with Rob personally : some things (people 
primarily although not solely) are more important than money. 

Original Message ---
The Stock Market is all about money. That's the first rule of investing.
Buying or selling stocks based on any other ideas is just silly. Good luck
with that.

Greg
-Original Message-
From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:58 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless there is an
amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I like their
business practices, think they have good products, and approve of how they
treat their staff.

Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the end how you run
your business is how you wind up being treated - in this world or the next.

I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and I think they
are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but that is all they
do.

Plus I sleep *really* well.

ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have put value on.

(If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
Rob

-Original Message-
From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but wouldn't you make out
well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in exchange for your
$11 MM shares?


> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
>
> Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
>
> Rob
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> its not
>
> -----Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> Please tell me this isn't true.
>
> Rob
>
> http://treebeard.sourceforge.net
> http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net
> Scientia Est Potentia
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: MS CF?
>
>
> http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>



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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Rob Rohan
Ha Ha, that is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time
:D

Rob
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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Matt Liotta
> I hate to put my .02 in on OT, but... MS didn't abondon VB or C++
> programmers with .NET. Yes, they changed VB to more closely resemble
an
> OOP language (still needs work).
>
Any changed some of the syntax and much of the semantics in the process.
VB6 and VB.NET are light years apart. Survey shows: VB developers feel
abandoned.

> C++ didn't change, Visual C++ changed.
> There is a strong difference. Language syntax and rules and
> what-have-you are still the same, it's the interaction with MS apps
that
> are different.
>
Maybe you didn't notice, but MSFT now expects C++ developers to either
use managed C++ or C#. Survey shows: C++ developers feel abandoned.

> .NET is an expansion (and actually a damn fine one) of
> the existing supported technologies. C# is a new language all
together.
> 
NET isn't any extension of any existing technologies; it is something
new entirely.

> Change is inevetible and necessary for the growth and innovation of
our
> industry. Quitcherbitchin'...
> 
If you read the thread you would have noticed that I was only
disagreeing with the assertion that MSFT offers developers security. I
offered no position as to whether change is good or bad.

-Matt

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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Haggerty, Mike

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-Original Message-
From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 3:54 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?

..

I think of myself as an artist (sometimes my code is good sometimes bad),
and Microsoft as the painter of those black light Elvis paintings.

..
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Re: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Cutter (CF_Talk)
That which is least secure is that which is a target...

Cutter

Dave Lyons wrote:

>Developer security
>
>You mean like they did with ASP?
>
>Oh, wait, they stopped development of that...
>
>And how long before asp.net gets scrapped for something "new"
>
>And I doubt "20 years" from now you can still use ASP
>
>I can see it now
>"DreamPage" or "FrontWeaver"
>can u imagine what would happen to DWMX if it fell into MS hands???
>Talk about security break down
>
>And all this so MS can get more windows servers out there, they have a
>lot to prove first.
>Remember the saying:
>Money can buy a lot of things in this world, just not a secure windows
>server
>
>Dave 
> 
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Adrocknaphobia Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
>Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:44 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>You can sit here and complain that MS is the bad guy, but they are not
>the company you have put your faith in. I know I have the unpopular view
>on this list as anti-MM, but I can tell you that if MS owned Flash, you
>wouldn't have to worry about it being sold again. Same goes for Cold
>Fusion. You could rest assured that the technology and education you put
>into MS will still be viable in 20 years. Which is something only a fool
>would say about Cold Fusion or Flash which are both still in their
>relative adolescence.
>
>Quite frankly, MS offers developers security. Something that MM and
>Allaire have failed quite miserably at (IMO).
>
>Rest assured though, we will probably not fall to the evil empire. If
>acquiring MM is a bid to diminish J2EE, I would expect IBM or Sun to
>offer a merger to counter an MS acquisition. After all, they both seemed
>to have invested a great deal in Cold Fusion and its J2ee developers.
>
>Although I still tell every CF developer I meet to learn a new language.
>Bottom line is that a broader skill set is never a detriment.
>
>Adam Wayne Lehman
>Web Systems Developer
>Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
>Distance Education Division
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
>Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:22 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>nah - no pitying required :)
>
>So how would selling your MS shares after MM was acquired not be
>reinforcing
>your opinion below? You would both be voicing your disapproval to MS and
>be
>profiting from it. Seems silly as an investor to voice your opinion
>before
>hand based on internet speculation from the Register.
>
>Adam.
>
>
>
>
>  
>
>>-Original Message-
>>From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:58 AM
>>To: CF-Talk
>>Subject: RE: MS CF?
>>
>>
>>Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless 
>>there is an
>>amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I 
>>like their
>>business practices, think they have good products, and 
>>approve of how they
>>treat their staff.
>>
>>Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the 
>>end how you run
>>your business is how you wind up being treated - in this 
>>world or the next.
>>
>>I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and 
>>I think they
>>are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but 
>>that is all they
>>do.
>>
>>Plus I sleep *really* well.
>>
>>ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have 
>>put value on.
>>
>>(If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
>>Rob
>>
>>-----Original Message-
>>From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
>>To: CF-Talk
>>Subject: RE: MS CF?
>>
>>
>>Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but 
>>wouldn't you make out
>>well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in 
>>exchange for your
>>$11 MM shares?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>-Original Message-----
>>>From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
>>>To: CF-Talk
>>>Subject: RE: MS CF?
>>>
>>>
>>>Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
>>>
>>>Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
>>>
>>>Rob
>>>
>>>-Original Message-
>>>From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
>>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>Sent

Re: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Cutter (CF_Talk)
I hate to put my .02 in on OT, but... MS didn't abondon VB or C++ 
programmers with .NET. Yes, they changed VB to more closely resemble an 
OOP language (still needs work). C++ didn't change, Visual C++ changed. 
There is a strong difference. Language syntax and rules and 
what-have-you are still the same, it's the interaction with MS apps that 
are different. .NET is an expansion (and actually a damn fine one) of 
the existing supported technologies. C# is a new language all together.

Change is inevetible and necessary for the growth and innovation of our 
industry. Quitcherbitchin'...

Cutter

Matt Liotta wrote:

>MSFT offers developers security? You mean like the VB developers they
>abandoned to launch VB.NET. Or the C++ developers they abandoned for C#.
>Then of course there is the various technologies they have abandoned in
>favor of something newer that does the same thing only differently and
>incompatible with the last like DAO, RDO, and COM.
>
>Matt Liotta
>President & CEO
>Montara Software, Inc.
>http://www.montarasoftware.com/
>888-408-0900 x901
>
>  
>
>>-Original Message-
>>From: Adrocknaphobia Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:44 PM
>>To: CF-Talk
>>Subject: RE: MS CF?
>>
>>You can sit here and complain that MS is the bad guy, but they are not
>>the company you have put your faith in. I know I have the unpopular
>>
>>
>view
>  
>
>>on this list as anti-MM, but I can tell you that if MS owned Flash,
>>
>>
>you
>  
>
>>wouldn't have to worry about it being sold again. Same goes for Cold
>>Fusion. You could rest assured that the technology and education you
>>
>>
>put
>  
>
>>into MS will still be viable in 20 years. Which is something only a
>>
>>
>fool
>  
>
>>would say about Cold Fusion or Flash which are both still in their
>>relative adolescence.
>>
>>Quite frankly, MS offers developers security. Something that MM and
>>Allaire have failed quite miserably at (IMO).
>>
>>Rest assured though, we will probably not fall to the evil empire. If
>>acquiring MM is a bid to diminish J2EE, I would expect IBM or Sun to
>>offer a merger to counter an MS acquisition. After all, they both
>>
>>
>seemed
>  
>
>>to have invested a great deal in Cold Fusion and its J2ee developers.
>>
>>Although I still tell every CF developer I meet to learn a new
>>
>>
>language.
>  
>
>>Bottom line is that a broader skill set is never a detriment.
>>
>>Adam Wayne Lehman
>>Web Systems Developer
>>Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
>>Distance Education Division
>>
>>
>>-Original Message-
>>From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:22 PM
>>To: CF-Talk
>>Subject: RE: MS CF?
>>
>>nah - no pitying required :)
>>
>>So how would selling your MS shares after MM was acquired not be
>>reinforcing
>>your opinion below? You would both be voicing your disapproval to MS
>>
>>
>and
>  
>
>>be
>>profiting from it. Seems silly as an investor to voice your opinion
>>before
>>hand based on internet speculation from the Register.
>>
>>Adam.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>-Original Message-
>>>From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:58 AM
>>>To: CF-Talk
>>>Subject: RE: MS CF?
>>>
>>>
>>>Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless
>>>there is an
>>>amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I
>>>like their
>>>business practices, think they have good products, and
>>>approve of how they
>>>treat their staff.
>>>
>>>Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the
>>>end how you run
>>>your business is how you wind up being treated - in this
>>>world or the next.
>>>
>>>I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and
>>>I think they
>>>are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but
>>>that is all they
>>>do.
>>>
>>>Plus I sleep *really* well.
>>>
>>>ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have
>>>put value on.
>>>
>>>(If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
>>>Rob
>>>
>>>-Original Message-
>>>F

RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Rob Rohan
> Exactly why is MS the evil empire again?
MS is not the evil empire. It is a company with business practices that are
unethical at best. I have seen more good ideas "embraced and extended" to
death, then I care to admit. I got into computers because I love computers.
I love to write code - to make killer apps that no one has seen. Not to
crush the competition by releasing an inferior product in to my monopolistic
and dumbed down OS.

I think of myself as an artist (sometimes my code is good sometimes bad),
and Microsoft as the painter of those black light Elvis paintings.

> Do you think there is a correlation between how MS
> is viewed in capitalism and how the US is viewed in
> international politics?
I hope not.

> It just seems like everyone wants to take pot-shots at the guys on top.
That is an old grip and untrue. Look at Microsoft's record - you can not be
that blind.

> Even though these supposed empires do more good for everyone
> as a whole, than the voices who condemn them.
I disagree. MS has done nothing for the computer industry except stifle
creative design and thinking and instead replaced it with bad products and
little choice - they throw people a bit of money and those people then sing
MS praises. Computers *would* have wound up on every desktop in America
without Microsoft.

If I recall correctly MS doesn't even employ many people they just do I lot
of contract work.

happy holidays list,
Rob

-Original Message-
From: Adrocknaphobia Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:29 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


Matt,

>C is a procedural language, C++ is an
>object-oriented language, and C# is an object-oriented garbage
collected
>virtual machine based language.

I wouldn't call cf5 and cfMX the same due to CFCs and its object
oriented slant on its previous fundamentals. Not too mention they
compile to completely different code, but for the sake of argument we
say they are the same, based on syntax.

Will I be able to develop with the CF syntax in 20 years? I fear not.
Will I be able to develop with a C syntax of some sort in 20 years? Most
likely.

I know we're getting really far off topic, but I don't subscribe to
community. But I do have one question?

Exactly why is MS the evil empire again? Do you think there is a
correlation between how MS is viewed in capitalism and how the US is
viewed in international politics? It just seems like everyone wants to
take pot-shots at the guys on top. Even though these supposed empires do
more good for everyone as a whole, than the voices who condemn them.

But whatever is whatever. In the grand scheme of things we have no
control over the future, so why bicker about it?

Adam Wayne Lehman
Web Systems Developer
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Distance Education Division


-Original Message-
From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:36 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?

> VB developers who were abandoned? I felt no more abandoned by .NET
than
> I did with CFMX. It's just a progression. It's an evolution. I mean
CF5
> to CFMX was a much bigger gap and the progression from VB to VB.NET.
You
> act as if VB and C++ don't exist. Not too mention C# is not a
> replacement for C++.
>
You may be one of the few VB developers who doesn't feel abandoned. And
BTW, MSFT is marketing C# as a replacement for C++.

> Further, are you spiting C# for giving you a language and CRLs to
> compile your code to nearly NEwhere? Hate to break it to you, but a
lot
> of people have wanted a language like that for a long time.
>
I am not spiting anything or anyone. Just pointing out that MSFT doesn't
give developers security.

> You can mention DAO and RDO fairly. As well as I can mention Generator
> and Homesite. Which were products, NOT technologies. You can't blame
MS
> for abandoning older technologies for better ones. However, I can
gripe
> about MM ditching a product its CTO said a year prior would not die.
> Only to be replaced with an inferior product. You know Ben Forta told
me
> point blank at the Dreamweaver gripe session that advanced cold fusion
> developers are the minority, and they have to support the majority to
be
> a successful company (hence WYSIWYG Dreamweaver bumps Homestie).
> Everyone is in it for the money. Don't spite one company and praise
> another when they share the same goals and faults.
>
I didn't spite MSFT and praise Macromedia.

> Bottom line is that 20 years ago I could have started as a C
developer.
> And I could still be one today. Maybe my syntax may change a bit over
> the years, C - C++ - C#, but at least I'll still have marketable
skills
> 20 years later. That is security. I just have this feeling that
> macromedia will sell me down the river if it can ma

RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Lee Fuller
WOW!  Was it THAT low?  I didn't look at that.  Hmm...


| -Original Message-
| From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
| Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:46 AM
| To: CF-Talk
| Subject: RE: MS CF?
| 
| 
| Indeed. While I may like Macromedia products, people, 
| business practices, etc; I won't be buying any of their stock 
| because it is a horrible investment right now. Soon all 
| publicly traded companies will be forced to expense their 
| stock options. When Macromedia is forced to expense their 
| stock options their stock is going to drop like a rock. 
| Macromedia's fiscal 2002 options expense was a whopping $1.57 
| per share. And keep in mind that the company is expected to 
| earn on a pro forma basis only $0.29 in fiscal 2003.
| 
| Matt Liotta
| President & CEO
| Montara Software, Inc.
| http://www.montarasoftware.com/
| 888-408-0900 x901
| 
| > -Original Message-
| > From: Luce, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:14 PM
| > To: CF-Talk
| > Subject: RE: MS CF?
| > 
| > The Stock Market is all about money. That's the first rule of
| investing.
| > Buying or selling stocks based on any other ideas is just 
| silly. Good
| luck
| > with that.
| > 
| > Greg
| > -Original Message-
| > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:58 PM
| > To: CF-Talk
| > Subject: RE: MS CF?
| > 
| > 
| > Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing 
| unless there is
| an
| > amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I like
| their
| > business practices, think they have good products, and 
| approve of how
| they
| > treat their staff.
| > 
| > Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the end how
| you
| > run
| > your business is how you wind up being treated - in this 
| world or the 
| > next.
| > 
| > I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and I think
| they
| > are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but 
| that is all
| they
| > do.
| > 
| > Plus I sleep *really* well.
| > 
| > ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have put
| value
| > on.
| > 
| > (If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
| > Rob
| > 
| > -----Original Message-
| > From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
| > To: CF-Talk
| > Subject: RE: MS CF?
| > 
| > 
| > Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but wouldn't you
| make
| > out
| > well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in exchange
| for
| > your
| > $11 MM shares?
| > 
| > 
| > > -Original Message-
| > > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| > > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
| > > To: CF-Talk
| > > Subject: RE: MS CF?
| > >
| > >
| > > Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
| > >
| > > Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
| > >
| > > Rob
| > >
| > > -Original Message-
| > > From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) 
| > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| > > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
| > > To: CF-Talk
| > > Subject: RE: MS CF?
| > >
| > >
| > > its not
| > >
| > > -Original Message-
| > > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| > > Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
| > > To: CF-Talk
| > > Subject: RE: MS CF?
| > >
| > >
| > > Please tell me this isn't true.
| > >
| > > Rob
| > >
| > > http://treebeard.sourceforge.net http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net
| > > Scientia Est Potentia
| > >
| > > -Original Message-
| > > From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| > > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
| > > To: CF-Talk
| > > Subject: MS CF?
| > >
| > >
| > > http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > 
| > 
| > 
| 
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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Lee Fuller
Yup.. Total agree.


| -Original Message-
| From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
| Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:51 AM
| To: CF-Talk
| Subject: RE: MS CF?
| 
| 
| MSFT offers developers security? You mean like the VB 
| developers they abandoned to launch VB.NET. Or the C++ 
| developers they abandoned for C#. Then of course there is the 
| various technologies they have abandoned in favor of 
| something newer that does the same thing only differently and 
| incompatible with the last like DAO, RDO, and COM.
| 
| Matt Liotta
| President & CEO
| Montara Software, Inc.
| http://www.montarasoftware.com/
| 888-408-0900 x901
| 
| > -Original Message-
| > From: Adrocknaphobia Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:44 PM
| > To: CF-Talk
| > Subject: RE: MS CF?
| > 
| > You can sit here and complain that MS is the bad guy, but 
| they are not 
| > the company you have put your faith in. I know I have the unpopular
| view
| > on this list as anti-MM, but I can tell you that if MS owned Flash,
| you
| > wouldn't have to worry about it being sold again. Same goes 
| for Cold 
| > Fusion. You could rest assured that the technology and education you
| put
| > into MS will still be viable in 20 years. Which is something only a
| fool
| > would say about Cold Fusion or Flash which are both still in their 
| > relative adolescence.
| > 
| > Quite frankly, MS offers developers security. Something that MM and 
| > Allaire have failed quite miserably at (IMO).
| > 
| > Rest assured though, we will probably not fall to the evil 
| empire. If 
| > acquiring MM is a bid to diminish J2EE, I would expect IBM 
| or Sun to 
| > offer a merger to counter an MS acquisition. After all, they both
| seemed
| > to have invested a great deal in Cold Fusion and its J2ee 
| developers.
| > 
| > Although I still tell every CF developer I meet to learn a new
| language.
| > Bottom line is that a broader skill set is never a detriment.
| > 
| > Adam Wayne Lehman
| > Web Systems Developer
| > Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
| > Distance Education Division
| > 
| > 
| > -Original Message-
| > From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:22 PM
| > To: CF-Talk
| > Subject: RE: MS CF?
| > 
| > nah - no pitying required :)
| > 
| > So how would selling your MS shares after MM was acquired not be 
| > reinforcing your opinion below? You would both be voicing your 
| > disapproval to MS
| and
| > be
| > profiting from it. Seems silly as an investor to voice your opinion 
| > before hand based on internet speculation from the Register.
| > 
| > Adam.
| > 
| > 
| > 
| > 
| > > -Original Message-
| > > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| > > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:58 AM
| > > To: CF-Talk
| > > Subject: RE: MS CF?
| > >
| > >
| > > Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing 
| unless there 
| > > is an amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in 
| companies where I
| > > like their
| > > business practices, think they have good products, and
| > > approve of how they
| > > treat their staff.
| > >
| > > Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in 
| the end how 
| > > you run your business is how you wind up being treated - in this
| > > world or the next.
| > >
| > > I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, 
| and I think 
| > > they are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but
| > > that is all they
| > > do.
| > >
| > > Plus I sleep *really* well.
| > >
| > > ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have put 
| > > value on.
| > >
| > > (If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
| > > Rob
| > >
| > > -Original Message-
| > > From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| > > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
| > > To: CF-Talk
| > > Subject: RE: MS CF?
| > >
| > >
| > > Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but 
| wouldn't you 
| > > make out well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 
| MS stock in
| > > exchange for your
| > > $11 MM shares?
| > >
| > >
| > > > -Original Message-
| > > > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| > > > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
| > > > To: CF-Talk
| > > > Subject: RE: MS CF?
| > > >
| > > >
| > > > Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
| > > >
| > > > Guess now I *don't* have to sell my M

RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Lee Fuller
LOL!

| I can see it now
| "DreamPage" or "FrontWeaver"
| can u imagine what would happen to DWMX if it fell into MS 
| hands??? Talk about security break down
| 

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RE: MS CF? (getting OT)

2002-12-23 Thread Lee Fuller
Heh.. He's got a point.

| -Original Message-
| From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
| Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:02 AM
| To: CF-Talk
| Subject: RE: MS CF? (getting OT)
| 
| 
| A final note - then I'll stop provoking - I offer two pieces 
| of advice:
| 
| 1) read the "Millionaire next door"
| 2) When dealing in investing, be wearing of trusting someone 
| who would sink $60,000 - $80,000 on a depreciating asset (their car).
| 
| :)
| 
| You guys are fun!
| 
| Rob
| 
| 
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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Lee Fuller
Kinda.. That is unless they simply decided to scrap it in favor of the
next "best thing since sliced bread" in which case it'd be dead forever.
Of course, you could always go back to school.. ;)

| You can sit here and complain that MS is the bad guy, but 
| they are not the company you have put your faith in. I know I 
| have the unpopular view on this list as anti-MM, but I can 
| tell you that if MS owned Flash, you wouldn't have to worry 
| about it being sold again. Same goes for Cold Fusion. You 
| could rest assured that the technology and education you put 
| into MS will still be viable in 20 years. Which is something 
| only a fool would say about Cold Fusion or Flash which are 
| both still in their relative adolescence.
 

Don't agree.  MM's still here.  CF is still here.  Flash is still here.
We're all still working with languages that are both supported and
growing.  Simply don't agree.

| Quite frankly, MS offers developers security. Something that 
| MM and Allaire have failed quite miserably at (IMO).


Agreed.  That would be logical.  Anyone taking bets?  Mine's on Apple.


| Rest assured though, we will probably not fall to the evil 
| empire. If acquiring MM is a bid to diminish J2EE, I would 
| expect IBM or Sun to offer a merger to counter an MS 
| acquisition. After all, they both seemed to have invested a 
| great deal in Cold Fusion and its J2ee developers.


Totally agree.
 
| Although I still tell every CF developer I meet to learn a 
| new language. Bottom line is that a broader skill set is 
| never a detriment.

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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Adrocknaphobia Jones
Matt,

>C is a procedural language, C++ is an
>object-oriented language, and C# is an object-oriented garbage
collected
>virtual machine based language.

I wouldn't call cf5 and cfMX the same due to CFCs and its object
oriented slant on its previous fundamentals. Not too mention they
compile to completely different code, but for the sake of argument we
say they are the same, based on syntax.

Will I be able to develop with the CF syntax in 20 years? I fear not.
Will I be able to develop with a C syntax of some sort in 20 years? Most
likely.

I know we're getting really far off topic, but I don't subscribe to
community. But I do have one question?

Exactly why is MS the evil empire again? Do you think there is a
correlation between how MS is viewed in capitalism and how the US is
viewed in international politics? It just seems like everyone wants to
take pot-shots at the guys on top. Even though these supposed empires do
more good for everyone as a whole, than the voices who condemn them.

But whatever is whatever. In the grand scheme of things we have no
control over the future, so why bicker about it?

Adam Wayne Lehman
Web Systems Developer
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Distance Education Division


-Original Message-
From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:36 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?

> VB developers who were abandoned? I felt no more abandoned by .NET
than
> I did with CFMX. It's just a progression. It's an evolution. I mean
CF5
> to CFMX was a much bigger gap and the progression from VB to VB.NET.
You
> act as if VB and C++ don't exist. Not too mention C# is not a
> replacement for C++.
> 
You may be one of the few VB developers who doesn't feel abandoned. And
BTW, MSFT is marketing C# as a replacement for C++.

> Further, are you spiting C# for giving you a language and CRLs to
> compile your code to nearly NEwhere? Hate to break it to you, but a
lot
> of people have wanted a language like that for a long time.
> 
I am not spiting anything or anyone. Just pointing out that MSFT doesn't
give developers security.

> You can mention DAO and RDO fairly. As well as I can mention Generator
> and Homesite. Which were products, NOT technologies. You can't blame
MS
> for abandoning older technologies for better ones. However, I can
gripe
> about MM ditching a product its CTO said a year prior would not die.
> Only to be replaced with an inferior product. You know Ben Forta told
me
> point blank at the Dreamweaver gripe session that advanced cold fusion
> developers are the minority, and they have to support the majority to
be
> a successful company (hence WYSIWYG Dreamweaver bumps Homestie).
> Everyone is in it for the money. Don't spite one company and praise
> another when they share the same goals and faults.
> 
I didn't spite MSFT and praise Macromedia.

> Bottom line is that 20 years ago I could have started as a C
developer.
> And I could still be one today. Maybe my syntax may change a bit over
> the years, C - C++ - C#, but at least I'll still have marketable
skills
> 20 years later. That is security. I just have this feeling that
> macromedia will sell me down the river if it can make them a profit.
> 
I highly doubt that above statement is true. C, C++, and C# are
FUNDAMENTALLY different languages. C is a procedural language, C++ is an
object-oriented language, and C# is an object-oriented garbage collected
virtual machine based language.

-Matt


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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Matt Liotta
> VB developers who were abandoned? I felt no more abandoned by .NET
than
> I did with CFMX. It's just a progression. It's an evolution. I mean
CF5
> to CFMX was a much bigger gap and the progression from VB to VB.NET.
You
> act as if VB and C++ don't exist. Not too mention C# is not a
> replacement for C++.
> 
You may be one of the few VB developers who doesn't feel abandoned. And
BTW, MSFT is marketing C# as a replacement for C++.

> Further, are you spiting C# for giving you a language and CRLs to
> compile your code to nearly NEwhere? Hate to break it to you, but a
lot
> of people have wanted a language like that for a long time.
> 
I am not spiting anything or anyone. Just pointing out that MSFT doesn't
give developers security.

> You can mention DAO and RDO fairly. As well as I can mention Generator
> and Homesite. Which were products, NOT technologies. You can't blame
MS
> for abandoning older technologies for better ones. However, I can
gripe
> about MM ditching a product its CTO said a year prior would not die.
> Only to be replaced with an inferior product. You know Ben Forta told
me
> point blank at the Dreamweaver gripe session that advanced cold fusion
> developers are the minority, and they have to support the majority to
be
> a successful company (hence WYSIWYG Dreamweaver bumps Homestie).
> Everyone is in it for the money. Don't spite one company and praise
> another when they share the same goals and faults.
> 
I didn't spite MSFT and praise Macromedia.

> Bottom line is that 20 years ago I could have started as a C
developer.
> And I could still be one today. Maybe my syntax may change a bit over
> the years, C - C++ - C#, but at least I'll still have marketable
skills
> 20 years later. That is security. I just have this feeling that
> macromedia will sell me down the river if it can make them a profit.
> 
I highly doubt that above statement is true. C, C++, and C# are
FUNDAMENTALLY different languages. C is a procedural language, C++ is an
object-oriented language, and C# is an object-oriented garbage collected
virtual machine based language.

-Matt

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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Matt Liotta
InfoWorld mentions it
(http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/16/021216opcringely.xml)
.

Matt Liotta
President & CEO
Montara Software, Inc.
http://www.montarasoftware.com/
888-408-0900 x901

> -Original Message-
> From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:12 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: MS CF?
> 
> Here is a question.
> Why is it that no other news outlet is reporting this? I mean, I go to
the
> following sites, and these are the only stories I can find that
mention M$
> and MM in the same story:
> 
> CNN:
>
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/09/26/microsoft.flash.idg/index.ht
ml
> MSNBC: Nothing
> Bloomberg: Nothing
> Forbes: Nothing
> Macromedia: Nothing
> M$: Nothing
> 
> 
> I could go on, but I think you all get the point. Why is it that The
> Register is allowed to break with this news, then all of the other
more
> reputable sources out there have nothing, and the one that does touts
the
> relationship that MM and M$ have had. I say we all stop with "The Sky
Is
> Falling" crap, move this to cf-community, and get back to taking about
> substantiated facts rather than hollow rumors.
> 
> 
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Matt Liotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:50 PM
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> > MSFT offers developers security? You mean like the VB developers
they
> > abandoned to launch VB.NET. Or the C++ developers they abandoned for
C#.
> > Then of course there is the various technologies they have abandoned
in
> > favor of something newer that does the same thing only differently
and
> > incompatible with the last like DAO, RDO, and COM.
> >
> > Matt Liotta
> > President & CEO
> > Montara Software, Inc.
> > http://www.montarasoftware.com/
> > 888-408-0900 x901
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Adrocknaphobia Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:44 PM
> > > To: CF-Talk
> > > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> > >
> > > You can sit here and complain that MS is the bad guy, but they are
not
> > > the company you have put your faith in. I know I have the
unpopular
> > view
> > > on this list as anti-MM, but I can tell you that if MS owned
Flash,
> > you
> > > wouldn't have to worry about it being sold again. Same goes for
Cold
> > > Fusion. You could rest assured that the technology and education
you
> > put
> > > into MS will still be viable in 20 years. Which is something only
a
> > fool
> > > would say about Cold Fusion or Flash which are both still in their
> > > relative adolescence.
> > >
> > > Quite frankly, MS offers developers security. Something that MM
and
> > > Allaire have failed quite miserably at (IMO).
> > >
> > > Rest assured though, we will probably not fall to the evil empire.
If
> > > acquiring MM is a bid to diminish J2EE, I would expect IBM or Sun
to
> > > offer a merger to counter an MS acquisition. After all, they both
> > seemed
> > > to have invested a great deal in Cold Fusion and its J2ee
developers.
> > >
> > > Although I still tell every CF developer I meet to learn a new
> > language.
> > > Bottom line is that a broader skill set is never a detriment.
> > >
> > > Adam Wayne Lehman
> > > Web Systems Developer
> > > Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
> > > Distance Education Division
> > >
> > >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:22 PM
> > > To: CF-Talk
> > > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> > >
> > > nah - no pitying required :)
> > >
> > > So how would selling your MS shares after MM was acquired not be
> > > reinforcing
> > > your opinion below? You would both be voicing your disapproval to
MS
> > and
> > > be
> > > profiting from it. Seems silly as an investor to voice your
opinion
> > > before
> > > hand based on internet speculation from the Register.
> > >
> > > Adam.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -Original Message-
> > > > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:58 AM
> > > > To: CF-Talk
> > > > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> > > >
>

Re: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread ksuh
Because it's the Register, and they like to make up stuff :)

- Original Message -
From: Bruce Sorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:11 pm
Subject: Re: MS CF?

> Here is a question.
> Why is it that no other news outlet is reporting this? I mean, I 
> go to the
> following sites, and these are the only stories I can find that 
> mention M$
> and MM in the same story:
> 
> CNN:
> http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/09/26/microsoft.flash.idg/index.html
> MSNBC: Nothing
> Bloomberg: Nothing
> Forbes: Nothing
> Macromedia: Nothing
> M$: Nothing
> 
> 
> I could go on, but I think you all get the point. Why is it that The
> Register is allowed to break with this news, then all of the other 
> morereputable sources out there have nothing, and the one that 
> does touts the
> relationship that MM and M$ have had. I say we all stop with "The 
> Sky Is
> Falling" crap, move this to cf-community, and get back to taking about
> substantiated facts rather than hollow rumors.
> 
> 
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Matt Liotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:50 PM
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> > MSFT offers developers security? You mean like the VB developers 
> they> abandoned to launch VB.NET. Or the C++ developers they 
> abandoned for C#.
> > Then of course there is the various technologies they have 
> abandoned in
> > favor of something newer that does the same thing only 
> differently and
> > incompatible with the last like DAO, RDO, and COM.
> >
> > Matt Liotta
> > President & CEO
> > Montara Software, Inc.
> > http://www.montarasoftware.com/
> > 888-408-0900 x901
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Adrocknaphobia Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:44 PM
> > > To: CF-Talk
> > > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> > >
> > > You can sit here and complain that MS is the bad guy, but they 
> are not
> > > the company you have put your faith in. I know I have the 
> unpopular> view
> > > on this list as anti-MM, but I can tell you that if MS owned 
> Flash,> you
> > > wouldn't have to worry about it being sold again. Same goes 
> for Cold
> > > Fusion. You could rest assured that the technology and 
> education you
> > put
> > > into MS will still be viable in 20 years. Which is something 
> only a
> > fool
> > > would say about Cold Fusion or Flash which are both still in their
> > > relative adolescence.
> > >
> > > Quite frankly, MS offers developers security. Something that 
> MM and
> > > Allaire have failed quite miserably at (IMO).
> > >
> > > Rest assured though, we will probably not fall to the evil 
> empire. If
> > > acquiring MM is a bid to diminish J2EE, I would expect IBM or 
> Sun to
> > > offer a merger to counter an MS acquisition. After all, they both
> > seemed
> > > to have invested a great deal in Cold Fusion and its J2ee 
> developers.> >
> > > Although I still tell every CF developer I meet to learn a new
> > language.
> > > Bottom line is that a broader skill set is never a detriment.
> > >
> > > Adam Wayne Lehman
> > > Web Systems Developer
> > > Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
> > > Distance Education Division
> > >
> > >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:22 PM
> > > To: CF-Talk
> > > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> > >
> > > nah - no pitying required :)
> > >
> > > So how would selling your MS shares after MM was acquired not be
> > > reinforcing
> > > your opinion below? You would both be voicing your disapproval 
> to MS
> > and
> > > be
> > > profiting from it. Seems silly as an investor to voice your 
> opinion> > before
> > > hand based on internet speculation from the Register.
> > >
> > > Adam.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -Original Message-
> > > > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:58 AM
> > > > To: CF-Talk
> > > > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothi

RE: MS CF? (getting OT)

2002-12-23 Thread Haggerty, Mike
Just say that the next time someone starts complaining about your comments.

M

-Original Message-
From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:01 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF? (getting OT)


We sold off our equity positions in 2000 and moved the money into bond
funds.

Matt Liotta
President & CEO
Montara Software, Inc.
http://www.montarasoftware.com/
888-408-0900 x901

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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Adrocknaphobia Jones
VB developers who were abandoned? I felt no more abandoned by .NET than
I did with CFMX. It's just a progression. It's an evolution. I mean CF5
to CFMX was a much bigger gap and the progression from VB to VB.NET. You
act as if VB and C++ don't exist. Not too mention C# is not a
replacement for C++. 

Further, are you spiting C# for giving you a language and CRLs to
compile your code to nearly NEwhere? Hate to break it to you, but a lot
of people have wanted a language like that for a long time.

You can mention DAO and RDO fairly. As well as I can mention Generator
and Homesite. Which were products, NOT technologies. You can't blame MS
for abandoning older technologies for better ones. However, I can gripe
about MM ditching a product its CTO said a year prior would not die.
Only to be replaced with an inferior product. You know Ben Forta told me
point blank at the Dreamweaver gripe session that advanced cold fusion
developers are the minority, and they have to support the majority to be
a successful company (hence WYSIWYG Dreamweaver bumps Homestie).
Everyone is in it for the money. Don't spite one company and praise
another when they share the same goals and faults.

Bottom line is that 20 years ago I could have started as a C developer.
And I could still be one today. Maybe my syntax may change a bit over
the years, C - C++ - C#, but at least I'll still have marketable skills
20 years later. That is security. I just have this feeling that
macromedia will sell me down the river if it can make them a profit.

Adam Wayne Lehman
Web Systems Developer
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Distance Education Division


-Original Message-
From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:51 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?

MSFT offers developers security? You mean like the VB developers they
abandoned to launch VB.NET. Or the C++ developers they abandoned for C#.
Then of course there is the various technologies they have abandoned in
favor of something newer that does the same thing only differently and
incompatible with the last like DAO, RDO, and COM.

Matt Liotta
President & CEO
Montara Software, Inc.
http://www.montarasoftware.com/
888-408-0900 x901

> -Original Message-
> From: Adrocknaphobia Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:44 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> You can sit here and complain that MS is the bad guy, but they are not
> the company you have put your faith in. I know I have the unpopular
view
> on this list as anti-MM, but I can tell you that if MS owned Flash,
you
> wouldn't have to worry about it being sold again. Same goes for Cold
> Fusion. You could rest assured that the technology and education you
put
> into MS will still be viable in 20 years. Which is something only a
fool
> would say about Cold Fusion or Flash which are both still in their
> relative adolescence.
> 
> Quite frankly, MS offers developers security. Something that MM and
> Allaire have failed quite miserably at (IMO).
> 
> Rest assured though, we will probably not fall to the evil empire. If
> acquiring MM is a bid to diminish J2EE, I would expect IBM or Sun to
> offer a merger to counter an MS acquisition. After all, they both
seemed
> to have invested a great deal in Cold Fusion and its J2ee developers.
> 
> Although I still tell every CF developer I meet to learn a new
language.
> Bottom line is that a broader skill set is never a detriment.
> 
> Adam Wayne Lehman
> Web Systems Developer
> Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
> Distance Education Division
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:22 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> nah - no pitying required :)
> 
> So how would selling your MS shares after MM was acquired not be
> reinforcing
> your opinion below? You would both be voicing your disapproval to MS
and
> be
> profiting from it. Seems silly as an investor to voice your opinion
> before
> hand based on internet speculation from the Register.
> 
> Adam.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:58 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless
> > there is an
> > amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I
> > like their
> > business practices, think they have good products, and
> > approve of how they
> > treat their staff.
> >
> > Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the
> > end how you run
> > your business i

RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Costas Piliotis
Can we hold you you to that?  Pretty bold statement IMHO...

-Original Message-
From: Les Mizzell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:12 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


 
:> http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html


I'll have to kill myself if this happens. Really.

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Re: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Adrocknaphobia Jones wrote:
> You can sit here and complain that MS is the bad guy, but they are not
> the company you have put your faith in. I know I have the unpopular view
> on this list as anti-MM, but I can tell you that if MS owned Flash, you
> wouldn't have to worry about it being sold again. Same goes for Cold
> Fusion. You could rest assured that the technology and education you put
> into MS will still be viable in 20 years. Which is something only a fool
> would say about Cold Fusion or Flash which are both still in their
> relative adolescence.

I most certainly hope that in 20 years nothing of the state of the art 
web technology I learn today is more relevant as COBOL is for web 
development now.

Jochem

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Re: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Bruce Sorge
Here is a question.
Why is it that no other news outlet is reporting this? I mean, I go to the
following sites, and these are the only stories I can find that mention M$
and MM in the same story:

CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/09/26/microsoft.flash.idg/index.html
MSNBC: Nothing
Bloomberg: Nothing
Forbes: Nothing
Macromedia: Nothing
M$: Nothing


I could go on, but I think you all get the point. Why is it that The
Register is allowed to break with this news, then all of the other more
reputable sources out there have nothing, and the one that does touts the
relationship that MM and M$ have had. I say we all stop with "The Sky Is
Falling" crap, move this to cf-community, and get back to taking about
substantiated facts rather than hollow rumors.



- Original Message -
From: "Matt Liotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:50 PM
Subject: RE: MS CF?


> MSFT offers developers security? You mean like the VB developers they
> abandoned to launch VB.NET. Or the C++ developers they abandoned for C#.
> Then of course there is the various technologies they have abandoned in
> favor of something newer that does the same thing only differently and
> incompatible with the last like DAO, RDO, and COM.
>
> Matt Liotta
> President & CEO
> Montara Software, Inc.
> http://www.montarasoftware.com/
> 888-408-0900 x901
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Adrocknaphobia Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:44 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> > You can sit here and complain that MS is the bad guy, but they are not
> > the company you have put your faith in. I know I have the unpopular
> view
> > on this list as anti-MM, but I can tell you that if MS owned Flash,
> you
> > wouldn't have to worry about it being sold again. Same goes for Cold
> > Fusion. You could rest assured that the technology and education you
> put
> > into MS will still be viable in 20 years. Which is something only a
> fool
> > would say about Cold Fusion or Flash which are both still in their
> > relative adolescence.
> >
> > Quite frankly, MS offers developers security. Something that MM and
> > Allaire have failed quite miserably at (IMO).
> >
> > Rest assured though, we will probably not fall to the evil empire. If
> > acquiring MM is a bid to diminish J2EE, I would expect IBM or Sun to
> > offer a merger to counter an MS acquisition. After all, they both
> seemed
> > to have invested a great deal in Cold Fusion and its J2ee developers.
> >
> > Although I still tell every CF developer I meet to learn a new
> language.
> > Bottom line is that a broader skill set is never a detriment.
> >
> > Adam Wayne Lehman
> > Web Systems Developer
> > Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
> > Distance Education Division
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:22 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> > nah - no pitying required :)
> >
> > So how would selling your MS shares after MM was acquired not be
> > reinforcing
> > your opinion below? You would both be voicing your disapproval to MS
> and
> > be
> > profiting from it. Seems silly as an investor to voice your opinion
> > before
> > hand based on internet speculation from the Register.
> >
> > Adam.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:58 AM
> > > To: CF-Talk
> > > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> > >
> > >
> > > Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless
> > > there is an
> > > amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I
> > > like their
> > > business practices, think they have good products, and
> > > approve of how they
> > > treat their staff.
> > >
> > > Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the
> > > end how you run
> > > your business is how you wind up being treated - in this
> > > world or the next.
> > >
> > > I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and
> > > I think they
> > > are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but
> > > that is all they
> > > do.
> > >
> > > Plus I sleep *really* well.
> > >
> > > ALL 

RE: MS CF? (OT for cf-talk)

2002-12-23 Thread Cantrell, Adam
Way OT, but the world would be a better place if people spent their money
this way period. Stock market is nice, but it's the revenue from customers
that makes a company. If no customers are spending, then no investors are
investing, and that company goes bye bye. 

I was just wondering why he would sell his stock based on this speculation.
Maybe if it was one of those companies that makes its keep through
litigation (Sun, Adobe, etc.), it would be a different story, as we all know
what happens to a company when they start spending more time in court than
making their products better. But you can almost assume that MM wouldn't
sell to MS at a loss, which goes back to my question of why somebody would
sell before the acquisition, and not after. Selling before would actually be
supporting MS, which he stated he didn't want to do for ethical reasons.

Adam.


> -Original Message-
> From: Thane Sherrington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:21 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> At 01:14 PM 12/23/02 -0500, Luce, Greg wrote:
> >The Stock Market is all about money. That's the first rule 
> of investing.
> >Buying or selling stocks based on any other ideas is just 
> silly. Good luck
> >with that.
> 
> Actually, given the number of ethical funds out there, a lot 
> of people 
> think the way Rob does.  I'd say the world would be a better 
> place if more 
> people bought stocks this way.  A way to great wealth?  
> Probably not.  But 
> money isn't everything.
> 
> 
> T
> 
> 
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RE: MS CF? (getting OT)

2002-12-23 Thread Matt Liotta
We sold off our equity positions in 2000 and moved the money into bond
funds.

Matt Liotta
President & CEO
Montara Software, Inc.
http://www.montarasoftware.com/
888-408-0900 x901

> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:52 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF? (getting OT)
> 
> Where are all the "winners" now?
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Luce, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:42 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF? (getting OT)
> 
> 
> I could ask the guys on the trading floor for their opinion, but I
don't
> think I have to. I guess I should have specified "Investing in the
stock
> market to make money" as opposed to just "The stock market". I didn't
know
> there was a different way to look at it though. Perhaps that explains
some
> things. Throughout the 90s I wondered how "everyone" was winning. Now
I
> see
> there is a whole other segment. I wondered who was losing.
> 
> Greg
> 
> -----Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:33 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF? (getting OT)
> 
> 
> Funny, I was under the impression the stock market was about stock. If
I
> am
> not mistaken when you buy stock you are buying a piece of the company
-
> therefore, you are saying "I like what this company is doing I am
going to
> give them money so they can do what they are doing some more." -
weather
> you
> mean to or not.
> 
> It has become a Las Vegas type institution where most don't care where
> their
> "vote" is going, but it goes none-the-less.
> 
> Thank you for your good luck wishes, but from the tone of your reply,
I
> think you will need the luck more then I will.
> 
> Rob
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Luce, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:14 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> The Stock Market is all about money. That's the first rule of
investing.
> Buying or selling stocks based on any other ideas is just silly. Good
luck
> with that.
> 
> Greg
> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:58 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless there is
an
> amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I like
their
> business practices, think they have good products, and approve of how
they
> treat their staff.
> 
> Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the end how
you
> run
> your business is how you wind up being treated - in this world or the
> next.
> 
> I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and I think
they
> are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but that is all
they
> do.
> 
> Plus I sleep *really* well.
> 
> ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have put
value
> on.
> 
> (If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
> Rob
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but wouldn't you
make
> out
> well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in exchange
for
> your
> $11 MM shares?
> 
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
> >
> > Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > its not
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > Please tell me this isn't true.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > http://treebeard.sourceforge.net
> > http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net
> > Scientia Est Potentia
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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RE: MS CF? (getting OT)

2002-12-23 Thread Rob Rohan
A final note - then I'll stop provoking - I offer two pieces of advice:

1) read the "Millionaire next door"
2) When dealing in investing, be wearing of trusting someone who would sink
$60,000 - $80,000 on a depreciating asset (their car).

:)

You guys are fun!

Rob

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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Russ
Blah blah Microsoft blah blah Macromedia blah blah Allaire blah blah

Any reason why we can't move this discussion to a different list?

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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Adrocknaphobia Jones
Rob,

Where do you work? I don't know any CF developers who work in the
trenches who can afford to invest in the stock market and NOT make
money. Maybe you should check out philanthropy and making grants to
non-profit orgs. I mean, you're not even getting a tax-break for all the
good work you are doing.

Adam Wayne Lehman
Web Systems Developer
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Distance Education Division


-Original Message-
From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:58 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?

Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless there is an
amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I like their
business practices, think they have good products, and approve of how
they
treat their staff.

Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the end how you
run
your business is how you wind up being treated - in this world or the
next.

I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and I think
they
are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but that is all
they
do.

Plus I sleep *really* well.

ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have put value
on.

(If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
Rob

-Original Message-
From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but wouldn't you make
out
well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in exchange for
your
$11 MM shares?


> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
>
> Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
>
> Rob
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> its not
>
> -Original Message-----
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> Please tell me this isn't true.
>
> Rob
>
> http://treebeard.sourceforge.net
> http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net
> Scientia Est Potentia
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: MS CF?
>
>
> http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>


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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Dave Lyons
Developer security

You mean like they did with ASP?

Oh, wait, they stopped development of that...

And how long before asp.net gets scrapped for something "new"

And I doubt "20 years" from now you can still use ASP

I can see it now
"DreamPage" or "FrontWeaver"
can u imagine what would happen to DWMX if it fell into MS hands???
Talk about security break down

And all this so MS can get more windows servers out there, they have a
lot to prove first.
Remember the saying:
Money can buy a lot of things in this world, just not a secure windows
server

Dave 
 

-Original Message-
From: Adrocknaphobia Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:44 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?

You can sit here and complain that MS is the bad guy, but they are not
the company you have put your faith in. I know I have the unpopular view
on this list as anti-MM, but I can tell you that if MS owned Flash, you
wouldn't have to worry about it being sold again. Same goes for Cold
Fusion. You could rest assured that the technology and education you put
into MS will still be viable in 20 years. Which is something only a fool
would say about Cold Fusion or Flash which are both still in their
relative adolescence.

Quite frankly, MS offers developers security. Something that MM and
Allaire have failed quite miserably at (IMO).

Rest assured though, we will probably not fall to the evil empire. If
acquiring MM is a bid to diminish J2EE, I would expect IBM or Sun to
offer a merger to counter an MS acquisition. After all, they both seemed
to have invested a great deal in Cold Fusion and its J2ee developers.

Although I still tell every CF developer I meet to learn a new language.
Bottom line is that a broader skill set is never a detriment.

Adam Wayne Lehman
Web Systems Developer
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Distance Education Division


-Original Message-
From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:22 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?

nah - no pitying required :)

So how would selling your MS shares after MM was acquired not be
reinforcing
your opinion below? You would both be voicing your disapproval to MS and
be
profiting from it. Seems silly as an investor to voice your opinion
before
hand based on internet speculation from the Register.

Adam.




> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:58 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless 
> there is an
> amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I 
> like their
> business practices, think they have good products, and 
> approve of how they
> treat their staff.
> 
> Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the 
> end how you run
> your business is how you wind up being treated - in this 
> world or the next.
> 
> I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and 
> I think they
> are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but 
> that is all they
> do.
> 
> Plus I sleep *really* well.
> 
> ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have 
> put value on.
> 
> (If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
> Rob
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but 
> wouldn't you make out
> well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in 
> exchange for your
> $11 MM shares?
> 
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
> >
> > Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > its not
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > Please tell me this isn't true.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > http://treebeard.sourceforge.net
> > http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net
> > Scientia Est Potentia
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > F

RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Matt Liotta
MSFT offers developers security? You mean like the VB developers they
abandoned to launch VB.NET. Or the C++ developers they abandoned for C#.
Then of course there is the various technologies they have abandoned in
favor of something newer that does the same thing only differently and
incompatible with the last like DAO, RDO, and COM.

Matt Liotta
President & CEO
Montara Software, Inc.
http://www.montarasoftware.com/
888-408-0900 x901

> -Original Message-
> From: Adrocknaphobia Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:44 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> You can sit here and complain that MS is the bad guy, but they are not
> the company you have put your faith in. I know I have the unpopular
view
> on this list as anti-MM, but I can tell you that if MS owned Flash,
you
> wouldn't have to worry about it being sold again. Same goes for Cold
> Fusion. You could rest assured that the technology and education you
put
> into MS will still be viable in 20 years. Which is something only a
fool
> would say about Cold Fusion or Flash which are both still in their
> relative adolescence.
> 
> Quite frankly, MS offers developers security. Something that MM and
> Allaire have failed quite miserably at (IMO).
> 
> Rest assured though, we will probably not fall to the evil empire. If
> acquiring MM is a bid to diminish J2EE, I would expect IBM or Sun to
> offer a merger to counter an MS acquisition. After all, they both
seemed
> to have invested a great deal in Cold Fusion and its J2ee developers.
> 
> Although I still tell every CF developer I meet to learn a new
language.
> Bottom line is that a broader skill set is never a detriment.
> 
> Adam Wayne Lehman
> Web Systems Developer
> Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
> Distance Education Division
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:22 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> nah - no pitying required :)
> 
> So how would selling your MS shares after MM was acquired not be
> reinforcing
> your opinion below? You would both be voicing your disapproval to MS
and
> be
> profiting from it. Seems silly as an investor to voice your opinion
> before
> hand based on internet speculation from the Register.
> 
> Adam.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:58 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless
> > there is an
> > amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I
> > like their
> > business practices, think they have good products, and
> > approve of how they
> > treat their staff.
> >
> > Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the
> > end how you run
> > your business is how you wind up being treated - in this
> > world or the next.
> >
> > I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and
> > I think they
> > are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but
> > that is all they
> > do.
> >
> > Plus I sleep *really* well.
> >
> > ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have
> > put value on.
> >
> > (If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
> > Rob
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but
> > wouldn't you make out
> > well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in
> > exchange for your
> > $11 MM shares?
> >
> >
> > > -Original Message-----
> > > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
> > > To: CF-Talk
> > > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> > >
> > >
> > > Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
> > >
> > > Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
> > >
> > > Rob
> > >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
> > > To: CF-Talk
> > > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> > >
> > >
> > > its not
> > >
> > > -Original Message-

RE: MS CF? (getting OT)

2002-12-23 Thread Rob Rohan
Where are all the "winners" now?

Rob


-Original Message-
From: Luce, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:42 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF? (getting OT)


I could ask the guys on the trading floor for their opinion, but I don't
think I have to. I guess I should have specified "Investing in the stock
market to make money" as opposed to just "The stock market". I didn't know
there was a different way to look at it though. Perhaps that explains some
things. Throughout the 90s I wondered how "everyone" was winning. Now I see
there is a whole other segment. I wondered who was losing.

Greg

-Original Message-
From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:33 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF? (getting OT)


Funny, I was under the impression the stock market was about stock. If I am
not mistaken when you buy stock you are buying a piece of the company -
therefore, you are saying "I like what this company is doing I am going to
give them money so they can do what they are doing some more." - weather you
mean to or not.

It has become a Las Vegas type institution where most don't care where their
"vote" is going, but it goes none-the-less.

Thank you for your good luck wishes, but from the tone of your reply, I
think you will need the luck more then I will.

Rob

-Original Message-
From: Luce, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:14 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


The Stock Market is all about money. That's the first rule of investing.
Buying or selling stocks based on any other ideas is just silly. Good luck
with that.

Greg
-Original Message-
From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:58 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless there is an
amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I like their
business practices, think they have good products, and approve of how they
treat their staff.

Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the end how you run
your business is how you wind up being treated - in this world or the next.

I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and I think they
are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but that is all they
do.

Plus I sleep *really* well.

ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have put value on.

(If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
Rob

-Original Message-
From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but wouldn't you make out
well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in exchange for your
$11 MM shares?


> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
>
> Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
>
> Rob
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> its not
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> Please tell me this isn't true.
>
> Rob
>
> http://treebeard.sourceforge.net
> http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net
> Scientia Est Potentia
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: MS CF?
>
>
> http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>





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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Matt Liotta
Indeed. While I may like Macromedia products, people, business
practices, etc; I won't be buying any of their stock because it is a
horrible investment right now. Soon all publicly traded companies will
be forced to expense their stock options. When Macromedia is forced to
expense their stock options their stock is going to drop like a rock.
Macromedia's fiscal 2002 options expense was a whopping $1.57 per share.
And keep in mind that the company is expected to earn on a pro forma
basis only $0.29 in fiscal 2003.

Matt Liotta
President & CEO
Montara Software, Inc.
http://www.montarasoftware.com/
888-408-0900 x901

> -Original Message-
> From: Luce, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:14 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> The Stock Market is all about money. That's the first rule of
investing.
> Buying or selling stocks based on any other ideas is just silly. Good
luck
> with that.
> 
> Greg
> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:58 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless there is
an
> amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I like
their
> business practices, think they have good products, and approve of how
they
> treat their staff.
> 
> Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the end how
you
> run
> your business is how you wind up being treated - in this world or the
> next.
> 
> I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and I think
they
> are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but that is all
they
> do.
> 
> Plus I sleep *really* well.
> 
> ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have put
value
> on.
> 
> (If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
> Rob
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but wouldn't you
make
> out
> well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in exchange
for
> your
> $11 MM shares?
> 
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
> >
> > Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > its not
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > Please tell me this isn't true.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > http://treebeard.sourceforge.net
> > http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net
> > Scientia Est Potentia
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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RE: MS CF? (getting OT)

2002-12-23 Thread Luce, Greg
I could ask the guys on the trading floor for their opinion, but I don't
think I have to. I guess I should have specified "Investing in the stock
market to make money" as opposed to just "The stock market". I didn't know
there was a different way to look at it though. Perhaps that explains some
things. Throughout the 90s I wondered how "everyone" was winning. Now I see
there is a whole other segment. I wondered who was losing.

Greg

-Original Message-
From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:33 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF? (getting OT)


Funny, I was under the impression the stock market was about stock. If I am
not mistaken when you buy stock you are buying a piece of the company -
therefore, you are saying "I like what this company is doing I am going to
give them money so they can do what they are doing some more." - weather you
mean to or not.

It has become a Las Vegas type institution where most don't care where their
"vote" is going, but it goes none-the-less.

Thank you for your good luck wishes, but from the tone of your reply, I
think you will need the luck more then I will.

Rob

-Original Message-
From: Luce, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:14 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


The Stock Market is all about money. That's the first rule of investing.
Buying or selling stocks based on any other ideas is just silly. Good luck
with that.

Greg
-Original Message-
From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:58 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless there is an
amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I like their
business practices, think they have good products, and approve of how they
treat their staff.

Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the end how you run
your business is how you wind up being treated - in this world or the next.

I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and I think they
are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but that is all they
do.

Plus I sleep *really* well.

ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have put value on.

(If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
Rob

-Original Message-
From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but wouldn't you make out
well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in exchange for your
$11 MM shares?


> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
>
> Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
>
> Rob
>
> -Original Message-----
> From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> its not
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> Please tell me this isn't true.
>
> Rob
>
> http://treebeard.sourceforge.net
> http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net
> Scientia Est Potentia
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: MS CF?
>
>
> http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>




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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Adrocknaphobia Jones
You can sit here and complain that MS is the bad guy, but they are not
the company you have put your faith in. I know I have the unpopular view
on this list as anti-MM, but I can tell you that if MS owned Flash, you
wouldn't have to worry about it being sold again. Same goes for Cold
Fusion. You could rest assured that the technology and education you put
into MS will still be viable in 20 years. Which is something only a fool
would say about Cold Fusion or Flash which are both still in their
relative adolescence.

Quite frankly, MS offers developers security. Something that MM and
Allaire have failed quite miserably at (IMO).

Rest assured though, we will probably not fall to the evil empire. If
acquiring MM is a bid to diminish J2EE, I would expect IBM or Sun to
offer a merger to counter an MS acquisition. After all, they both seemed
to have invested a great deal in Cold Fusion and its J2ee developers.

Although I still tell every CF developer I meet to learn a new language.
Bottom line is that a broader skill set is never a detriment.

Adam Wayne Lehman
Web Systems Developer
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Distance Education Division


-Original Message-
From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 1:22 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?

nah - no pitying required :)

So how would selling your MS shares after MM was acquired not be
reinforcing
your opinion below? You would both be voicing your disapproval to MS and
be
profiting from it. Seems silly as an investor to voice your opinion
before
hand based on internet speculation from the Register.

Adam.




> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:58 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless 
> there is an
> amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I 
> like their
> business practices, think they have good products, and 
> approve of how they
> treat their staff.
> 
> Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the 
> end how you run
> your business is how you wind up being treated - in this 
> world or the next.
> 
> I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and 
> I think they
> are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but 
> that is all they
> do.
> 
> Plus I sleep *really* well.
> 
> ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have 
> put value on.
> 
> (If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
> Rob
> 
> -Original Message-----
> From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but 
> wouldn't you make out
> well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in 
> exchange for your
> $11 MM shares?
> 
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
> >
> > Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > its not
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > Please tell me this isn't true.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > http://treebeard.sourceforge.net
> > http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net
> > Scientia Est Potentia
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 

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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Jeffry Houser
At 01:14 PM 12/23/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>The Stock Market is all about money. That's the first rule of investing.
>Buying or selling stocks based on any other ideas is just silly. Good luck
>with that.

  I see your point, but I also see Rob's point too.
  There are many theories of investing in the stock market.  I'm sure there 
are plenty of profitable companies that adhere to good business practices.



>Greg
>-Original Message-
>From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:58 PM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
>Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless there is an
>amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I like their
>business practices, think they have good products, and approve of how they
>treat their staff.
>
>Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the end how you run
>your business is how you wind up being treated - in this world or the next.
>
>I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and I think they
>are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but that is all they
>do.
>
>Plus I sleep *really* well.
>
>ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have put value on.
>
>(If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
>Rob
>
>-Original Message-----
>From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
>Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but wouldn't you make out
>well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in exchange for your
>$11 MM shares?
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
> >
> > Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > its not
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > Please tell me this isn't true.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > http://treebeard.sourceforge.net
> > http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net
> > Scientia Est Potentia
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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RE: MS CF? (getting OT)

2002-12-23 Thread Rob Rohan
Funny, I was under the impression the stock market was about stock. If I am
not mistaken when you buy stock you are buying a piece of the company -
therefore, you are saying "I like what this company is doing I am going to
give them money so they can do what they are doing some more." - weather you
mean to or not.

It has become a Las Vegas type institution where most don't care where their
"vote" is going, but it goes none-the-less.

Thank you for your good luck wishes, but from the tone of your reply, I
think you will need the luck more then I will.

Rob

-Original Message-
From: Luce, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:14 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


The Stock Market is all about money. That's the first rule of investing.
Buying or selling stocks based on any other ideas is just silly. Good luck
with that.

Greg
-Original Message-
From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:58 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless there is an
amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I like their
business practices, think they have good products, and approve of how they
treat their staff.

Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the end how you run
your business is how you wind up being treated - in this world or the next.

I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and I think they
are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but that is all they
do.

Plus I sleep *really* well.

ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have put value on.

(If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
Rob

-Original Message-
From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but wouldn't you make out
well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in exchange for your
$11 MM shares?


> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
>
> Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
>
> Rob
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> its not
>
> -----Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> Please tell me this isn't true.
>
> Rob
>
> http://treebeard.sourceforge.net
> http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net
> Scientia Est Potentia
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: MS CF?
>
>
> http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>



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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 01:14 PM 12/23/02 -0500, Luce, Greg wrote:
>The Stock Market is all about money. That's the first rule of investing.
>Buying or selling stocks based on any other ideas is just silly. Good luck
>with that.

Actually, given the number of ethical funds out there, a lot of people 
think the way Rob does.  I'd say the world would be a better place if more 
people bought stocks this way.  A way to great wealth?  Probably not.  But 
money isn't everything.


T

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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Cantrell, Adam
nah - no pitying required :)

So how would selling your MS shares after MM was acquired not be reinforcing
your opinion below? You would both be voicing your disapproval to MS and be
profiting from it. Seems silly as an investor to voice your opinion before
hand based on internet speculation from the Register.

Adam.




> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:58 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless 
> there is an
> amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I 
> like their
> business practices, think they have good products, and 
> approve of how they
> treat their staff.
> 
> Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the 
> end how you run
> your business is how you wind up being treated - in this 
> world or the next.
> 
> I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and 
> I think they
> are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but 
> that is all they
> do.
> 
> Plus I sleep *really* well.
> 
> ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have 
> put value on.
> 
> (If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
> Rob
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but 
> wouldn't you make out
> well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in 
> exchange for your
> $11 MM shares?
> 
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
> >
> > Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > its not
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > Please tell me this isn't true.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > http://treebeard.sourceforge.net
> > http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net
> > Scientia Est Potentia
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: MS CF?
> >
> >
> > http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Luce, Greg
The Stock Market is all about money. That's the first rule of investing.
Buying or selling stocks based on any other ideas is just silly. Good luck
with that.

Greg
-Original Message-
From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:58 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless there is an
amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I like their
business practices, think they have good products, and approve of how they
treat their staff.

Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the end how you run
your business is how you wind up being treated - in this world or the next.

I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and I think they
are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but that is all they
do.

Plus I sleep *really* well.

ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have put value on.

(If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
Rob

-Original Message-
From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but wouldn't you make out
well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in exchange for your
$11 MM shares?


> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
>
> Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
>
> Rob
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> its not
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> Please tell me this isn't true.
>
> Rob
>
> http://treebeard.sourceforge.net
> http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net
> Scientia Est Potentia
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: MS CF?
>
>
> http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>


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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Rob Rohan
Well, welcome to America where you vote means nothing unless there is an
amount of money tied to it. I buy stocks in companies where I like their
business practices, think they have good products, and approve of how they
treat their staff.

Sometimes I loose money, often I make money. Because in the end how you run
your business is how you wind up being treated - in this world or the next.

I disapprove of a lot of Microsoft's business practices, and I think they
are an ethically bad company. They make money - yes - but that is all they
do.

Plus I sleep *really* well.

ALL IMHO as it is my funny green pieces of paper that we have put value on.

(If you think it's all about the money - I pity you)
Rob

-Original Message-
From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:39 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but wouldn't you make out
well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in exchange for your
$11 MM shares?


> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
>
> Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
>
> Rob
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> its not
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
>
>
> Please tell me this isn't true.
>
> Rob
>
> http://treebeard.sourceforge.net
> http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net
> Scientia Est Potentia
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: MS CF?
>
>
> http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Stacy Young
You kidding?

MS is all about capturing the user install base (Windows, IE etc..)...and
Flash is the most widely distributed run time...more so than windows.

Another attractive aspect is the Dreamweaver user base...

I would be very distraught, although not surprised, if MS has been
considering MM for a long time...

Vivre la resistance!

Stace

-Original Message-
From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 5:26 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?

I doubt this will happen, Microsoft have no need to look at CF or
Macromedia; its not their bag MM are of no threat to MS this is
reflected in the two turnovers..Billions v's Millions.

-Original Message-
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Sent: 23 December 2002 10:12
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


 
:> http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html


I'll have to kill myself if this happens. Really.


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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Cantrell, Adam
Why would you sell it? I'm no Wall St. slickster, but wouldn't you make out
well if you were suddenly in possession of $54 MS stock in exchange for your
$11 MM shares?


> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)
> 
> Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!
> 
> Rob
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> its not
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF?
> 
> 
> Please tell me this isn't true.
> 
> Rob
> 
> http://treebeard.sourceforge.net
> http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net
> Scientia Est Potentia
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: MS CF?
> 
> 
> http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Luce, Greg
Yeah, we all know Microsoft isn't profitable right? ;-)

Greg

-Original Message-
From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 12:32 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)

Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!

Rob

-Original Message-
From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


its not

-Original Message-
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Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


Please tell me this isn't true.

Rob

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-Original Message-
From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: MS CF?


http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html








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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Rob Rohan
Ha, from the Robertson-Ravo news source :)

Guess now I *don't* have to sell my Macromedia stock, whew!

Rob

-Original Message-
From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 9:04 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


its not

-Original Message-
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Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


Please tell me this isn't true.

Rob

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-Original Message-
From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
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Subject: MS CF?


http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html







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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
its not

-Original Message-
From: Rob Rohan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 23 December 2002 17:07
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Please tell me this isn't true.

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-Original Message-
From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
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Subject: MS CF?


http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html






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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Rob Rohan
Please tell me this isn't true.

Rob

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-Original Message-
From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:07 AM
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Subject: MS CF?


http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html





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Re: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Quoting Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html

Last month it was Apple, next month it probably is Adobe (unless
everybody will be busy reporting real news).



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Re: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Jon Hall
I'll believe it when I see it. Anyway, if Microsoft has you in their
sights...you know you have to be doing something right.

Of course, Microsoft isn't allowed to distribute any Java technology
without making nice with Sun, because of the lawsuit, and we all know
that isn't going to happen.
So if Microsoft were to buy Macromedia, they would have to either kill
CF, sell it off, or perhaps keep the name and rewrite the engine as
a .Net app. None of which make me exactly happy...except maybe the
chance to replace Studio with VS.Net ;)

Oh well...one thing is for sure, Macromedia's stock is going to get a
nice push for a bit if Wall Street catches this rumor.

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Monday, December 23, 2002, 5:06:31 AM, you wrote:

LC> http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html

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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Jason Lees (National Express)
If it happens it happens, being a developer I'll use whatever tool's I'm
told to use either by Clients or the company I work for at the time.

As for if MS buys MM personally I can see it happening, based on the
aqusitions its made over the years, and also the fact that the only tools MS
have for web design are Front Page and ASP.Net, and they arnt the easiest to
use.

Well thats my two penneth. 

Jason Lees
Development Team Leader
National Express Coaches Ltd.



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http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html





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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
I doubt this will happen, Microsoft have no need to look at CF or
Macromedia; its not their bag MM are of no threat to MS this is
reflected in the two turnovers..Billions v's Millions.

-Original Message-
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Sent: 23 December 2002 10:12
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF?


 
:> http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html


I'll have to kill myself if this happens. Really.

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RE: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Les Mizzell
 
:> http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html


I'll have to kill myself if this happens. Really.
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Re: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread Michael Dinowitz
There is a gem in the article though. This mention:
" The ColdFusion web application server is regarded as superior to Microsoft's
Active Server Pages (ASPs) and even Santa Clara, California-based Sun's Java
Server Pages (JSPs) because of its simplicity, power and completeness.
ColdFusion MX, meanwhile, uses ColdFusion Mark-up Language (CFML) tags that
compile to Java. "
That being said, this thread is going to spawn into a whole MS bashing debate
and is best moved to a non-technical list such as CF-OT.


> All I can say is "Please God NO"
>
> Microsoft bashing asside (I use it on my desktop) I really don't want to see
> this happen to the MM products, the last thing they need is to be taken from
> useful, user friendly tools and turned into bloated, buggy, unstable cr**.
>
> Just my 2p.
>
> --
> James Smith
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:06 AM
> Subject: MS CF?
>
>
> > http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Re: MS CF?

2002-12-23 Thread James Smith
All I can say is "Please God NO"

Microsoft bashing asside (I use it on my desktop) I really don't want to see
this happen to the MM products, the last thing they need is to be taken from
useful, user friendly tools and turned into bloated, buggy, unstable cr**.

Just my 2p.

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To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: MS CF?


> http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html
>
>
>
>
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Re: RE: MS CF AND JAVA

2002-11-29 Thread ksuh
Ok, you're not confused, I am :)

- Original Message -
From: Craig Dudley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, November 29, 2002 8:46 am
Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA

> That's pretty much what I said, so how am I confused?
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Kwang Suh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: 29 November 2002 14:58
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA
> 
> You guys are all seriously confused.
> 
> All MS is doing is *not* including an implementation of Java with 
> theirXP
> OS.  So what?  Download the Java Runtime Environment from Sun and
> install
> it.  There, you have a full implementation of Java.
> 
> It is up to *Sun* to support any Microsoft OSs with Java, not MS.
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 5:11 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA
> >
> >
> > Thanks Craig,
> > //however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's,
> > yea been thinking about that, the VB implementation started
> > at the beginning of the year with CF 5.0 but since using
> > CFMX and espeacially reading the documentation its java, java, java.
> > Certainly from what I,ve read java and XML seems to be the dogs
> bollocks,
> > although I don't know too much about java and com, I suppose thats
> where
> > JEB comes in.
> >
> > So 2 years down the line and nothing changes with regards to MS and
> SUN
> > (which is highly unlikly as you say)
> > working with java2 (or eventually higher) leaves you incompatible
> > to plug in
> >
> > to MS if they are only supporting up to 1.2.
> >
> > Yip it is confusing, but damn interesting at the same time I think.
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Craig Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 29 November 2002 11:24
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA
> >
> >
> > Hi John,
> >
> > Under a court settlement with SUN, MS can't use java2 technology 
> (1.3> and above + I think) in their own VM, as far as I recollect, 
> MS dumped
> > supporting java directly in their OS's shortly after, although 
> you can
> > still get a MS VM if you want, I believe it's akin to Sun's jre 1.2
> > (java1, baffling isn't it?).
> >
> > I wouldn't worry about being able to run java on a windows 
> platform in
> > the future, MS wouldn't shoot itself in the foot by deliberately
> messing
> > up java in windows any further, they would lose an awful lot of 
> server> customers. And I can't see sun and others stopping 
> production of their
> > own windows vm's.
> >
> > If, however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's, then your
> > sites should be much more portable, and if you decide to move to 
> unix/
> > linux, it should be trivial matter. I would have thought that java
> > classes will be much faster at certain things too.
> >
> > As far as MSMQ goes, no idea ;-)
> >
> > Craig.
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 29 November 2002 10:48
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: MS CF AND JAVA
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > do any of you guys know exactly what is going on right now with
> > Microsoft
> > and SUN.
> > I heard microsoft will completely stop supporting SUN Java after 
> 2004,> as
> > they are
> > developing their own VM not compatible with SUN's.
> >
> > Now maybe some might think this is a question for Community, but I
> want
> > to
> > get CFTalks
> > point of view here.
> >
> > We are currently making the transition to OO with CFMX (which I know
> is
> > not
> > true OO),
> > but more importantly java. I'm not not worried or afraid of change,
> but
> > it
> > would be
> > nice to know if we are going to have to make a move to Linux for Web
> > technologies in
> > the future if we currently want to work with these tools and take
> > ourselves
> > forward with them.
> >
> > Which leads me to another question which is on another note, I've
> > started
> > developing a while back
> > in VB COM+ dll's so I could speed up certain tasks where CF is
> sluggish,
> > my
> > question is I'm
> > slightly confused about the main purpose of Microsoft Message 
> Queing,> what I
> > do understand is that
> > it allows two or more machines work together out of sinc, but 
> can it
> be
> > used
> > as a threading mechanism
> > for COM compoents on a server only. From what I have seen MSMQ 
> assignsa
> > queing mechanism to both the client
> > app and server app, so where does it fit in with HTTP where the 
> client> will
> > not have a designated que.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > J
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> 
> 
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Re: MS CF AND JAVA

2002-11-29 Thread Christian Cantrell
Kwang is correct regarding Sun's ability to provide a JVM.  As long as 
Sun maintains JVMs for Windows, it will always be possible to run Java 
on Windows.  The problem is that Microsoft stopped distributing a JVM 
with Windows XP, which means users have to download and install a third 
party JVM (like Sun's).  There are a lot of users who either would not 
know to do this, or would not bother, but as a developer, you are likely 
to have that option for a long long time to come.

BTW, there was a recent court ruling requiring Microsoft to start 
distributing a JVM with XP.  Whether they do it or not remains to be seen.

Cantrell

Kwang Suh wrote:
> You guys are all seriously confused.
> 
> All MS is doing is *not* including an implementation of Java with their XP
> OS.  So what?  Download the Java Runtime Environment from Sun and install
> it.  There, you have a full implementation of Java.
> 
> It is up to *Sun* to support any Microsoft OSs with Java, not MS.
> 
> 
>>-Original Message-
>>From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 5:11 AM
>>To: CF-Talk
>>Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA
>>
>>
>>Thanks Craig,
>>//however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's,
>>yea been thinking about that, the VB implementation started
>>at the beginning of the year with CF 5.0 but since using
>>CFMX and espeacially reading the documentation its java, java, java.
>>Certainly from what I,ve read java and XML seems to be the dogs bollocks,
>>although I don't know too much about java and com, I suppose thats where
>>JEB comes in.
>>
>>So 2 years down the line and nothing changes with regards to MS and SUN
>>(which is highly unlikly as you say)
>>working with java2 (or eventually higher) leaves you incompatible
>>to plug in
>>
>>to MS if they are only supporting up to 1.2.
>>
>>Yip it is confusing, but damn interesting at the same time I think.
>>
>>-Original Message-
>>From: Craig Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: 29 November 2002 11:24
>>To: CF-Talk
>>Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA
>>
>>
>>Hi John,
>>
>>Under a court settlement with SUN, MS can't use java2 technology (1.3
>>and above + I think) in their own VM, as far as I recollect, MS dumped
>>supporting java directly in their OS's shortly after, although you can
>>still get a MS VM if you want, I believe it's akin to Sun's jre 1.2
>>(java1, baffling isn't it?).
>>
>>I wouldn't worry about being able to run java on a windows platform in
>>the future, MS wouldn't shoot itself in the foot by deliberately messing
>>up java in windows any further, they would lose an awful lot of server
>>customers. And I can't see sun and others stopping production of their
>>own windows vm's.
>>
>>If, however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's, then your
>>sites should be much more portable, and if you decide to move to unix /
>>linux, it should be trivial matter. I would have thought that java
>>classes will be much faster at certain things too.
>>
>>As far as MSMQ goes, no idea ;-)
>>
>>Craig.
>>
>>-Original Message-
>>From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: 29 November 2002 10:48
>>To: CF-Talk
>>Subject: MS CF AND JAVA
>>
>>Hey,
>>
>>do any of you guys know exactly what is going on right now with
>>Microsoft
>>and SUN.
>>I heard microsoft will completely stop supporting SUN Java after 2004,
>>as
>>they are
>>developing their own VM not compatible with SUN's.
>>
>>Now maybe some might think this is a question for Community, but I want
>>to
>>get CFTalks
>>point of view here.
>>
>>We are currently making the transition to OO with CFMX (which I know is
>>not
>>true OO),
>>but more importantly java. I'm not not worried or afraid of change, but
>>it
>>would be
>>nice to know if we are going to have to make a move to Linux for Web
>>technologies in
>>the future if we currently want to work with these tools and take
>>ourselves
>>forward with them.
>>
>>Which leads me to another question which is on another note, I've
>>started
>>developing a while back
>>in VB COM+ dll's so I could speed up certain tasks where CF is sluggish,
>>my
>>question is I'm
>>slightly confused about the main purpose of Microsoft Message Queing,
>>what I
>>do understand is that
>>it allows two or more machines work together out 

RE: MS CF AND JAVA

2002-11-29 Thread Craig Dudley
That's pretty much what I said, so how am I confused?

-Original Message-
From: Kwang Suh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 29 November 2002 14:58
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA

You guys are all seriously confused.

All MS is doing is *not* including an implementation of Java with their
XP
OS.  So what?  Download the Java Runtime Environment from Sun and
install
it.  There, you have a full implementation of Java.

It is up to *Sun* to support any Microsoft OSs with Java, not MS.

> -Original Message-
> From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 5:11 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA
>
>
> Thanks Craig,
> //however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's,
> yea been thinking about that, the VB implementation started
> at the beginning of the year with CF 5.0 but since using
> CFMX and espeacially reading the documentation its java, java, java.
> Certainly from what I,ve read java and XML seems to be the dogs
bollocks,
> although I don't know too much about java and com, I suppose thats
where
> JEB comes in.
>
> So 2 years down the line and nothing changes with regards to MS and
SUN
> (which is highly unlikly as you say)
> working with java2 (or eventually higher) leaves you incompatible
> to plug in
>
> to MS if they are only supporting up to 1.2.
>
> Yip it is confusing, but damn interesting at the same time I think.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Craig Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 29 November 2002 11:24
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA
>
>
> Hi John,
>
> Under a court settlement with SUN, MS can't use java2 technology (1.3
> and above + I think) in their own VM, as far as I recollect, MS dumped
> supporting java directly in their OS's shortly after, although you can
> still get a MS VM if you want, I believe it's akin to Sun's jre 1.2
> (java1, baffling isn't it?).
>
> I wouldn't worry about being able to run java on a windows platform in
> the future, MS wouldn't shoot itself in the foot by deliberately
messing
> up java in windows any further, they would lose an awful lot of server
> customers. And I can't see sun and others stopping production of their
> own windows vm's.
>
> If, however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's, then your
> sites should be much more portable, and if you decide to move to unix
/
> linux, it should be trivial matter. I would have thought that java
> classes will be much faster at certain things too.
>
> As far as MSMQ goes, no idea ;-)
>
> Craig.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 29 November 2002 10:48
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: MS CF AND JAVA
>
> Hey,
>
> do any of you guys know exactly what is going on right now with
> Microsoft
> and SUN.
> I heard microsoft will completely stop supporting SUN Java after 2004,
> as
> they are
> developing their own VM not compatible with SUN's.
>
> Now maybe some might think this is a question for Community, but I
want
> to
> get CFTalks
> point of view here.
>
> We are currently making the transition to OO with CFMX (which I know
is
> not
> true OO),
> but more importantly java. I'm not not worried or afraid of change,
but
> it
> would be
> nice to know if we are going to have to make a move to Linux for Web
> technologies in
> the future if we currently want to work with these tools and take
> ourselves
> forward with them.
>
> Which leads me to another question which is on another note, I've
> started
> developing a while back
> in VB COM+ dll's so I could speed up certain tasks where CF is
sluggish,
> my
> question is I'm
> slightly confused about the main purpose of Microsoft Message Queing,
> what I
> do understand is that
> it allows two or more machines work together out of sinc, but can it
be
> used
> as a threading mechanism
> for COM compoents on a server only. From what I have seen MSMQ assigns
a
> queing mechanism to both the client
> app and server app, so where does it fit in with HTTP where the client
> will
> not have a designated que.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> J
>
>
>
> 

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RE: MS CF AND JAVA

2002-11-29 Thread John McCosker
//MS is doing is including an implementation of Java with their XP OS
Thats right,
XP is supporting the implementation of Java,
my query was after 2004 all MS OS will not, due to a leagal battle with SUN
and MS,
which resulted in MS telling lies, lies, lies...

Anyway, I'm just going to use my better judgement and steer towards the
gorilla.

-Original Message-
From: Kwang Suh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 29 November 2002 14:58
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA


You guys are all seriously confused.

All MS is doing is *not* including an implementation of Java with their XP
OS.  So what?  Download the Java Runtime Environment from Sun and install
it.  There, you have a full implementation of Java.

It is up to *Sun* to support any Microsoft OSs with Java, not MS.

> -Original Message-
> From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 5:11 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA
>
>
> Thanks Craig,
> //however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's,
> yea been thinking about that, the VB implementation started
> at the beginning of the year with CF 5.0 but since using
> CFMX and espeacially reading the documentation its java, java, java.
> Certainly from what I,ve read java and XML seems to be the dogs bollocks,
> although I don't know too much about java and com, I suppose thats where
> JEB comes in.
>
> So 2 years down the line and nothing changes with regards to MS and SUN
> (which is highly unlikly as you say)
> working with java2 (or eventually higher) leaves you incompatible
> to plug in
>
> to MS if they are only supporting up to 1.2.
>
> Yip it is confusing, but damn interesting at the same time I think.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Craig Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 29 November 2002 11:24
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA
>
>
> Hi John,
>
> Under a court settlement with SUN, MS can't use java2 technology (1.3
> and above + I think) in their own VM, as far as I recollect, MS dumped
> supporting java directly in their OS's shortly after, although you can
> still get a MS VM if you want, I believe it's akin to Sun's jre 1.2
> (java1, baffling isn't it?).
>
> I wouldn't worry about being able to run java on a windows platform in
> the future, MS wouldn't shoot itself in the foot by deliberately messing
> up java in windows any further, they would lose an awful lot of server
> customers. And I can't see sun and others stopping production of their
> own windows vm's.
>
> If, however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's, then your
> sites should be much more portable, and if you decide to move to unix /
> linux, it should be trivial matter. I would have thought that java
> classes will be much faster at certain things too.
>
> As far as MSMQ goes, no idea ;-)
>
> Craig.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 29 November 2002 10:48
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: MS CF AND JAVA
>
> Hey,
>
> do any of you guys know exactly what is going on right now with
> Microsoft
> and SUN.
> I heard microsoft will completely stop supporting SUN Java after 2004,
> as
> they are
> developing their own VM not compatible with SUN's.
>
> Now maybe some might think this is a question for Community, but I want
> to
> get CFTalks
> point of view here.
>
> We are currently making the transition to OO with CFMX (which I know is
> not
> true OO),
> but more importantly java. I'm not not worried or afraid of change, but
> it
> would be
> nice to know if we are going to have to make a move to Linux for Web
> technologies in
> the future if we currently want to work with these tools and take
> ourselves
> forward with them.
>
> Which leads me to another question which is on another note, I've
> started
> developing a while back
> in VB COM+ dll's so I could speed up certain tasks where CF is sluggish,
> my
> question is I'm
> slightly confused about the main purpose of Microsoft Message Queing,
> what I
> do understand is that
> it allows two or more machines work together out of sinc, but can it be
> used
> as a threading mechanism
> for COM compoents on a server only. From what I have seen MSMQ assigns a
> queing mechanism to both the client
> app and server app, so where does it fit in with HTTP where the client
> will
> not have a designated que.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> J
>
>
>
> 

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RE: MS CF AND JAVA

2002-11-29 Thread Kwang Suh
You guys are all seriously confused.

All MS is doing is *not* including an implementation of Java with their XP
OS.  So what?  Download the Java Runtime Environment from Sun and install
it.  There, you have a full implementation of Java.

It is up to *Sun* to support any Microsoft OSs with Java, not MS.

> -Original Message-
> From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 5:11 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA
>
>
> Thanks Craig,
> //however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's,
> yea been thinking about that, the VB implementation started
> at the beginning of the year with CF 5.0 but since using
> CFMX and espeacially reading the documentation its java, java, java.
> Certainly from what I,ve read java and XML seems to be the dogs bollocks,
> although I don't know too much about java and com, I suppose thats where
> JEB comes in.
>
> So 2 years down the line and nothing changes with regards to MS and SUN
> (which is highly unlikly as you say)
> working with java2 (or eventually higher) leaves you incompatible
> to plug in
>
> to MS if they are only supporting up to 1.2.
>
> Yip it is confusing, but damn interesting at the same time I think.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Craig Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 29 November 2002 11:24
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA
>
>
> Hi John,
>
> Under a court settlement with SUN, MS can't use java2 technology (1.3
> and above + I think) in their own VM, as far as I recollect, MS dumped
> supporting java directly in their OS's shortly after, although you can
> still get a MS VM if you want, I believe it's akin to Sun's jre 1.2
> (java1, baffling isn't it?).
>
> I wouldn't worry about being able to run java on a windows platform in
> the future, MS wouldn't shoot itself in the foot by deliberately messing
> up java in windows any further, they would lose an awful lot of server
> customers. And I can't see sun and others stopping production of their
> own windows vm's.
>
> If, however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's, then your
> sites should be much more portable, and if you decide to move to unix /
> linux, it should be trivial matter. I would have thought that java
> classes will be much faster at certain things too.
>
> As far as MSMQ goes, no idea ;-)
>
> Craig.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 29 November 2002 10:48
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: MS CF AND JAVA
>
> Hey,
>
> do any of you guys know exactly what is going on right now with
> Microsoft
> and SUN.
> I heard microsoft will completely stop supporting SUN Java after 2004,
> as
> they are
> developing their own VM not compatible with SUN's.
>
> Now maybe some might think this is a question for Community, but I want
> to
> get CFTalks
> point of view here.
>
> We are currently making the transition to OO with CFMX (which I know is
> not
> true OO),
> but more importantly java. I'm not not worried or afraid of change, but
> it
> would be
> nice to know if we are going to have to make a move to Linux for Web
> technologies in
> the future if we currently want to work with these tools and take
> ourselves
> forward with them.
>
> Which leads me to another question which is on another note, I've
> started
> developing a while back
> in VB COM+ dll's so I could speed up certain tasks where CF is sluggish,
> my
> question is I'm
> slightly confused about the main purpose of Microsoft Message Queing,
> what I
> do understand is that
> it allows two or more machines work together out of sinc, but can it be
> used
> as a threading mechanism
> for COM compoents on a server only. From what I have seen MSMQ assigns a
> queing mechanism to both the client
> app and server app, so where does it fit in with HTTP where the client
> will
> not have a designated que.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> J
>
>
>
> 
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RE: MS CF AND JAVA

2002-11-29 Thread Craig Dudley
Lol, yes it is to me.

-Original Message-
From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 29 November 2002 12:41
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA

//I've been trying to
//learn java for a few months on and off, some days I feel I'm actually
//starting to get there, others I feel like I'm nowhere near.

So Java is like golf,
damn and I hate golf,

Pleasure craig.

-Original Message-
From: Craig Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 29 November 2002 12:28
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA


Nah, it won't leave you with any incompatibilities, simply download and
install sun's jre's, don't even consider using an MS VM and you can't
really go wrong.

As far as COM goes, you can do pretty much anything that you can do with
com with java; either JNI (Java Native Interface) or EJB (Enterprise
Java Beans) should cover most things.

Panic not, there won't be any major issues running cfmx and or java on a
windows based servers in the near future.

As far as version numbers go, the jre's are number differently to actual
java. Up to jre 1.2 was just called Java, now 1.3 and above, Sun calls
Java2. I may have those jre numbers wrong, but you get the picture.

However, java is an entirely different animal to cf, converting across
to 00 programming is 99% of the problem, it's a completely different
thought process, the syntax is pretty simple tbh. I've been trying to
learn java for a few months on and off, some days I feel I'm actually
starting to get there, others I feel like I'm nowhere near.

Anyway, have fun, java is certainly cool.

Craig.

-Original Message-
From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 29 November 2002 12:11
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA

Thanks Craig,
//however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's,
yea been thinking about that, the VB implementation started
at the beginning of the year with CF 5.0 but since using
CFMX and espeacially reading the documentation its java, java, java.
Certainly from what I,ve read java and XML seems to be the dogs
bollocks,
although I don't know too much about java and com, I suppose thats where
JEB comes in.

So 2 years down the line and nothing changes with regards to MS and SUN
(which is highly unlikly as you say) 
working with java2 (or eventually higher) leaves you incompatible to
plug in

to MS if they are only supporting up to 1.2.

Yip it is confusing, but damn interesting at the same time I think.

-Original Message-
From: Craig Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 29 November 2002 11:24
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA


Hi John,

Under a court settlement with SUN, MS can't use java2 technology (1.3
and above + I think) in their own VM, as far as I recollect, MS dumped
supporting java directly in their OS's shortly after, although you can
still get a MS VM if you want, I believe it's akin to Sun's jre 1.2
(java1, baffling isn't it?).

I wouldn't worry about being able to run java on a windows platform in
the future, MS wouldn't shoot itself in the foot by deliberately messing
up java in windows any further, they would lose an awful lot of server
customers. And I can't see sun and others stopping production of their
own windows vm's.

If, however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's, then your
sites should be much more portable, and if you decide to move to unix /
linux, it should be trivial matter. I would have thought that java
classes will be much faster at certain things too.

As far as MSMQ goes, no idea ;-)

Craig.

-Original Message-
From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 29 November 2002 10:48
To: CF-Talk
Subject: MS CF AND JAVA

Hey,

do any of you guys know exactly what is going on right now with
Microsoft
and SUN.
I heard microsoft will completely stop supporting SUN Java after 2004,
as
they are 
developing their own VM not compatible with SUN's.

Now maybe some might think this is a question for Community, but I want
to
get CFTalks
point of view here.

We are currently making the transition to OO with CFMX (which I know is
not
true OO),
but more importantly java. I'm not not worried or afraid of change, but
it
would be 
nice to know if we are going to have to make a move to Linux for Web
technologies in 
the future if we currently want to work with these tools and take
ourselves
forward with them.

Which leads me to another question which is on another note, I've
started
developing a while back
in VB COM+ dll's so I could speed up certain tasks where CF is sluggish,
my
question is I'm
slightly confused about the main purpose of Microsoft Message Queing,
what I
do understand is that
it allows two or more machines work together out of sinc, but can it be
used
as a threading mechanism
for COM compoents on a server only. From what I have seen MSMQ assigns a
queing

RE: MS CF AND JAVA

2002-11-29 Thread John McCosker
//I've been trying to
//learn java for a few months on and off, some days I feel I'm actually
//starting to get there, others I feel like I'm nowhere near.

So Java is like golf,
damn and I hate golf,

Pleasure craig.

-Original Message-
From: Craig Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 29 November 2002 12:28
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA


Nah, it won't leave you with any incompatibilities, simply download and
install sun's jre's, don't even consider using an MS VM and you can't
really go wrong.

As far as COM goes, you can do pretty much anything that you can do with
com with java; either JNI (Java Native Interface) or EJB (Enterprise
Java Beans) should cover most things.

Panic not, there won't be any major issues running cfmx and or java on a
windows based servers in the near future.

As far as version numbers go, the jre's are number differently to actual
java. Up to jre 1.2 was just called Java, now 1.3 and above, Sun calls
Java2. I may have those jre numbers wrong, but you get the picture.

However, java is an entirely different animal to cf, converting across
to 00 programming is 99% of the problem, it's a completely different
thought process, the syntax is pretty simple tbh. I've been trying to
learn java for a few months on and off, some days I feel I'm actually
starting to get there, others I feel like I'm nowhere near.

Anyway, have fun, java is certainly cool.

Craig.

-Original Message-
From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 29 November 2002 12:11
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA

Thanks Craig,
//however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's,
yea been thinking about that, the VB implementation started
at the beginning of the year with CF 5.0 but since using
CFMX and espeacially reading the documentation its java, java, java.
Certainly from what I,ve read java and XML seems to be the dogs
bollocks,
although I don't know too much about java and com, I suppose thats where
JEB comes in.

So 2 years down the line and nothing changes with regards to MS and SUN
(which is highly unlikly as you say) 
working with java2 (or eventually higher) leaves you incompatible to
plug in

to MS if they are only supporting up to 1.2.

Yip it is confusing, but damn interesting at the same time I think.

-Original Message-
From: Craig Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 29 November 2002 11:24
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA


Hi John,

Under a court settlement with SUN, MS can't use java2 technology (1.3
and above + I think) in their own VM, as far as I recollect, MS dumped
supporting java directly in their OS's shortly after, although you can
still get a MS VM if you want, I believe it's akin to Sun's jre 1.2
(java1, baffling isn't it?).

I wouldn't worry about being able to run java on a windows platform in
the future, MS wouldn't shoot itself in the foot by deliberately messing
up java in windows any further, they would lose an awful lot of server
customers. And I can't see sun and others stopping production of their
own windows vm's.

If, however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's, then your
sites should be much more portable, and if you decide to move to unix /
linux, it should be trivial matter. I would have thought that java
classes will be much faster at certain things too.

As far as MSMQ goes, no idea ;-)

Craig.

-Original Message-
From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 29 November 2002 10:48
To: CF-Talk
Subject: MS CF AND JAVA

Hey,

do any of you guys know exactly what is going on right now with
Microsoft
and SUN.
I heard microsoft will completely stop supporting SUN Java after 2004,
as
they are 
developing their own VM not compatible with SUN's.

Now maybe some might think this is a question for Community, but I want
to
get CFTalks
point of view here.

We are currently making the transition to OO with CFMX (which I know is
not
true OO),
but more importantly java. I'm not not worried or afraid of change, but
it
would be 
nice to know if we are going to have to make a move to Linux for Web
technologies in 
the future if we currently want to work with these tools and take
ourselves
forward with them.

Which leads me to another question which is on another note, I've
started
developing a while back
in VB COM+ dll's so I could speed up certain tasks where CF is sluggish,
my
question is I'm
slightly confused about the main purpose of Microsoft Message Queing,
what I
do understand is that
it allows two or more machines work together out of sinc, but can it be
used
as a threading mechanism
for COM compoents on a server only. From what I have seen MSMQ assigns a
queing mechanism to both the client
app and server app, so where does it fit in with HTTP where the client
will
not have a designated que.

Thanks in advance,

J





~~~

RE: MS CF AND JAVA

2002-11-29 Thread webguy
Its SUN or IBM etc who creates the JVM for wintel platforms. So the JVM is
sitting on top of the WIn32 platform. The only way MS can break it, would be
to break the Win32 API, which would break any other programs using that API
(e.g. most programs)

Theoretically MS chould phase out the Win32 API, get all the developers to
use the .NET framework (with it's common runtime) then shift the API under
it... breaking anything that runs directly on the api. So the JVM would have
to run on the CLI that runs on microsofts secret API...which obviously would
be an advantage to MS. Conspiracy Theory 101


WG

> -Original Message-
> From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 29 November 2002 12:11
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA
>
>
> Thanks Craig,
> //however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's,
> yea been thinking about that, the VB implementation started
> at the beginning of the year with CF 5.0 but since using
> CFMX and espeacially reading the documentation its java, java, java.
> Certainly from what I,ve read java and XML seems to be the dogs bollocks,
> although I don't know too much about java and com, I suppose thats where
> JEB comes in.
>
> So 2 years down the line and nothing changes with regards to MS and SUN
> (which is highly unlikly as you say)
> working with java2 (or eventually higher) leaves you incompatible
> to plug in
>
> to MS if they are only supporting up to 1.2.
>
> Yip it is confusing, but damn interesting at the same time I think.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Craig Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 29 November 2002 11:24
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA
>
>
> Hi John,
>
> Under a court settlement with SUN, MS can't use java2 technology (1.3
> and above + I think) in their own VM, as far as I recollect, MS dumped
> supporting java directly in their OS's shortly after, although you can
> still get a MS VM if you want, I believe it's akin to Sun's jre 1.2
> (java1, baffling isn't it?).
>
> I wouldn't worry about being able to run java on a windows platform in
> the future, MS wouldn't shoot itself in the foot by deliberately messing
> up java in windows any further, they would lose an awful lot of server
> customers. And I can't see sun and others stopping production of their
> own windows vm's.
>
> If, however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's, then your
> sites should be much more portable, and if you decide to move to unix /
> linux, it should be trivial matter. I would have thought that java
> classes will be much faster at certain things too.
>
> As far as MSMQ goes, no idea ;-)
>
> Craig.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 29 November 2002 10:48
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: MS CF AND JAVA
>
> Hey,
>
> do any of you guys know exactly what is going on right now with
> Microsoft
> and SUN.
> I heard microsoft will completely stop supporting SUN Java after 2004,
> as
> they are
> developing their own VM not compatible with SUN's.
>
> Now maybe some might think this is a question for Community, but I want
> to
> get CFTalks
> point of view here.
>
> We are currently making the transition to OO with CFMX (which I know is
> not
> true OO),
> but more importantly java. I'm not not worried or afraid of change, but
> it
> would be
> nice to know if we are going to have to make a move to Linux for Web
> technologies in
> the future if we currently want to work with these tools and take
> ourselves
> forward with them.
>
> Which leads me to another question which is on another note, I've
> started
> developing a while back
> in VB COM+ dll's so I could speed up certain tasks where CF is sluggish,
> my
> question is I'm
> slightly confused about the main purpose of Microsoft Message Queing,
> what I
> do understand is that
> it allows two or more machines work together out of sinc, but can it be
> used
> as a threading mechanism
> for COM compoents on a server only. From what I have seen MSMQ assigns a
> queing mechanism to both the client
> app and server app, so where does it fit in with HTTP where the client
> will
> not have a designated que.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> J
>
>
>
> 
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RE: MS CF AND JAVA

2002-11-29 Thread Craig Dudley
Nah, it won't leave you with any incompatibilities, simply download and
install sun's jre's, don't even consider using an MS VM and you can't
really go wrong.

As far as COM goes, you can do pretty much anything that you can do with
com with java; either JNI (Java Native Interface) or EJB (Enterprise
Java Beans) should cover most things.

Panic not, there won't be any major issues running cfmx and or java on a
windows based servers in the near future.

As far as version numbers go, the jre's are number differently to actual
java. Up to jre 1.2 was just called Java, now 1.3 and above, Sun calls
Java2. I may have those jre numbers wrong, but you get the picture.

However, java is an entirely different animal to cf, converting across
to 00 programming is 99% of the problem, it's a completely different
thought process, the syntax is pretty simple tbh. I've been trying to
learn java for a few months on and off, some days I feel I'm actually
starting to get there, others I feel like I'm nowhere near.

Anyway, have fun, java is certainly cool.

Craig.

-Original Message-
From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 29 November 2002 12:11
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA

Thanks Craig,
//however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's,
yea been thinking about that, the VB implementation started
at the beginning of the year with CF 5.0 but since using
CFMX and espeacially reading the documentation its java, java, java.
Certainly from what I,ve read java and XML seems to be the dogs
bollocks,
although I don't know too much about java and com, I suppose thats where
JEB comes in.

So 2 years down the line and nothing changes with regards to MS and SUN
(which is highly unlikly as you say) 
working with java2 (or eventually higher) leaves you incompatible to
plug in

to MS if they are only supporting up to 1.2.

Yip it is confusing, but damn interesting at the same time I think.

-Original Message-
From: Craig Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 29 November 2002 11:24
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA


Hi John,

Under a court settlement with SUN, MS can't use java2 technology (1.3
and above + I think) in their own VM, as far as I recollect, MS dumped
supporting java directly in their OS's shortly after, although you can
still get a MS VM if you want, I believe it's akin to Sun's jre 1.2
(java1, baffling isn't it?).

I wouldn't worry about being able to run java on a windows platform in
the future, MS wouldn't shoot itself in the foot by deliberately messing
up java in windows any further, they would lose an awful lot of server
customers. And I can't see sun and others stopping production of their
own windows vm's.

If, however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's, then your
sites should be much more portable, and if you decide to move to unix /
linux, it should be trivial matter. I would have thought that java
classes will be much faster at certain things too.

As far as MSMQ goes, no idea ;-)

Craig.

-Original Message-
From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 29 November 2002 10:48
To: CF-Talk
Subject: MS CF AND JAVA

Hey,

do any of you guys know exactly what is going on right now with
Microsoft
and SUN.
I heard microsoft will completely stop supporting SUN Java after 2004,
as
they are 
developing their own VM not compatible with SUN's.

Now maybe some might think this is a question for Community, but I want
to
get CFTalks
point of view here.

We are currently making the transition to OO with CFMX (which I know is
not
true OO),
but more importantly java. I'm not not worried or afraid of change, but
it
would be 
nice to know if we are going to have to make a move to Linux for Web
technologies in 
the future if we currently want to work with these tools and take
ourselves
forward with them.

Which leads me to another question which is on another note, I've
started
developing a while back
in VB COM+ dll's so I could speed up certain tasks where CF is sluggish,
my
question is I'm
slightly confused about the main purpose of Microsoft Message Queing,
what I
do understand is that
it allows two or more machines work together out of sinc, but can it be
used
as a threading mechanism
for COM compoents on a server only. From what I have seen MSMQ assigns a
queing mechanism to both the client
app and server app, so where does it fit in with HTTP where the client
will
not have a designated que.

Thanks in advance,

J




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RE: MS CF AND JAVA

2002-11-29 Thread John McCosker
Thanks Craig,
//however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's,
yea been thinking about that, the VB implementation started
at the beginning of the year with CF 5.0 but since using
CFMX and espeacially reading the documentation its java, java, java.
Certainly from what I,ve read java and XML seems to be the dogs bollocks,
although I don't know too much about java and com, I suppose thats where
JEB comes in.

So 2 years down the line and nothing changes with regards to MS and SUN
(which is highly unlikly as you say) 
working with java2 (or eventually higher) leaves you incompatible to plug in

to MS if they are only supporting up to 1.2.

Yip it is confusing, but damn interesting at the same time I think.

-Original Message-
From: Craig Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 29 November 2002 11:24
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: MS CF AND JAVA


Hi John,

Under a court settlement with SUN, MS can't use java2 technology (1.3
and above + I think) in their own VM, as far as I recollect, MS dumped
supporting java directly in their OS's shortly after, although you can
still get a MS VM if you want, I believe it's akin to Sun's jre 1.2
(java1, baffling isn't it?).

I wouldn't worry about being able to run java on a windows platform in
the future, MS wouldn't shoot itself in the foot by deliberately messing
up java in windows any further, they would lose an awful lot of server
customers. And I can't see sun and others stopping production of their
own windows vm's.

If, however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's, then your
sites should be much more portable, and if you decide to move to unix /
linux, it should be trivial matter. I would have thought that java
classes will be much faster at certain things too.

As far as MSMQ goes, no idea ;-)

Craig.

-Original Message-
From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 29 November 2002 10:48
To: CF-Talk
Subject: MS CF AND JAVA

Hey,

do any of you guys know exactly what is going on right now with
Microsoft
and SUN.
I heard microsoft will completely stop supporting SUN Java after 2004,
as
they are 
developing their own VM not compatible with SUN's.

Now maybe some might think this is a question for Community, but I want
to
get CFTalks
point of view here.

We are currently making the transition to OO with CFMX (which I know is
not
true OO),
but more importantly java. I'm not not worried or afraid of change, but
it
would be 
nice to know if we are going to have to make a move to Linux for Web
technologies in 
the future if we currently want to work with these tools and take
ourselves
forward with them.

Which leads me to another question which is on another note, I've
started
developing a while back
in VB COM+ dll's so I could speed up certain tasks where CF is sluggish,
my
question is I'm
slightly confused about the main purpose of Microsoft Message Queing,
what I
do understand is that
it allows two or more machines work together out of sinc, but can it be
used
as a threading mechanism
for COM compoents on a server only. From what I have seen MSMQ assigns a
queing mechanism to both the client
app and server app, so where does it fit in with HTTP where the client
will
not have a designated que.

Thanks in advance,

J



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RE: MS CF AND JAVA

2002-11-29 Thread Craig Dudley
Hi John,

Under a court settlement with SUN, MS can't use java2 technology (1.3
and above + I think) in their own VM, as far as I recollect, MS dumped
supporting java directly in their OS's shortly after, although you can
still get a MS VM if you want, I believe it's akin to Sun's jre 1.2
(java1, baffling isn't it?).

I wouldn't worry about being able to run java on a windows platform in
the future, MS wouldn't shoot itself in the foot by deliberately messing
up java in windows any further, they would lose an awful lot of server
customers. And I can't see sun and others stopping production of their
own windows vm's.

If, however you do use java classes rather than VB dll's, then your
sites should be much more portable, and if you decide to move to unix /
linux, it should be trivial matter. I would have thought that java
classes will be much faster at certain things too.

As far as MSMQ goes, no idea ;-)

Craig.

-Original Message-
From: John McCosker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 29 November 2002 10:48
To: CF-Talk
Subject: MS CF AND JAVA

Hey,

do any of you guys know exactly what is going on right now with
Microsoft
and SUN.
I heard microsoft will completely stop supporting SUN Java after 2004,
as
they are 
developing their own VM not compatible with SUN's.

Now maybe some might think this is a question for Community, but I want
to
get CFTalks
point of view here.

We are currently making the transition to OO with CFMX (which I know is
not
true OO),
but more importantly java. I'm not not worried or afraid of change, but
it
would be 
nice to know if we are going to have to make a move to Linux for Web
technologies in 
the future if we currently want to work with these tools and take
ourselves
forward with them.

Which leads me to another question which is on another note, I've
started
developing a while back
in VB COM+ dll's so I could speed up certain tasks where CF is sluggish,
my
question is I'm
slightly confused about the main purpose of Microsoft Message Queing,
what I
do understand is that
it allows two or more machines work together out of sinc, but can it be
used
as a threading mechanism
for COM compoents on a server only. From what I have seen MSMQ assigns a
queing mechanism to both the client
app and server app, so where does it fit in with HTTP where the client
will
not have a designated que.

Thanks in advance,

J


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