On 29/08/2006, at 7:18 AM, David Sanchez wrote:
On Aug 28, 2006, at 5:05 PM, Paul Lynch wrote:
But the tools in .NET are completely integrated, very fast and
relatively mature.
What this tells us is that tools alone are not enough to make a
good product, you need a degree of adequateness, of being "good
enough", in all major areas.
Of course not. But the main reason I can think of why .NET is more
popular than WO is because of those developer tools (And Microsoft
business aggressiveness). Imagine a WO with great developers tools
and documentation (From Apple or whomever).
I wish you were right my friend, but popularity (or at least
widespread use) in this marketplace has little to do with technical
excellence. I can't comment on .NET tools (although .NET is a little
more open than Java, because you don't have to use C# or VB, because
it is open to other technologies like Eiffel - didn't you wonder
where MS got the "Trusted Computing Platform" phrase from?)
Today's dominance dates back to the 1890s when a guy named Patterson
found he could sell more of his inferior NCR cash registers by
blackening the competitors to clients. TJ Watson of IBM was his early
accomplice, and Patterson eventually went to gaol (or jail....
alright the penitentiary) for his activities. I can't remember if
Watson did as well. This interesting history is in Richard
DeLamater's Big Blue: IBM's Use and Abuse of Power.
Anyway, today, there is no shortage of MS patsies going around saying
Apple sucks, although I think most of the world is seeing through
their message.
Apple, I think is well aware that even if they made WO the most
perfect, beautifully-integrated-with-tools platform that it would
still be a hard sell against MS dominance in the world. Like managers
did not used to get fired for installing IBM, they now don't get
fired for using .NET, and even if they did, there's always the .NET
site next door.
Ian
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