Friday, November 22, 2002

The Register dissects a MS-authored paper on the pain incurred by Hotmail's BSD->Win2K migration. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28226.html The scary thing is, .NET doesn't address any of these issues. Perhaps the GUI-less(?) Windows 2000 Datacenter server does? If we could ask one of the 10 businesses talked into buying it, we could find out. :-) 8:31:15 AM      comment []  trackback []

Ximian's vision: mono... embedded everywhere? A .NET ONE slideshow discussing hosting the mono runtime within the perl interpreter, apache, gnumeric etc. This is the payoff for Ximian's enormous investment in mono: language bindings done once, and then re-used for all Ximian and Gnome projects, and every version of the software. Also, the ability to sell their desktop s/w to any end user. I believe they can do the tech, especially if they can really make evolutionary changes to their existing code base (the big *huge* advantage over Java), but I still wonder if they'll be any better making money on their work than Sun and Java. Or will they just end up promoting Windows as the .NET reference solution? Also worth a look, Miguel's keynote (OpenOffice Slideshow) 8:31:12 AM      comment []  trackback []