From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy
Date: 1999/02/28
Date: 1999-02-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1999Feb28.071208.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7baj6j$e57@drn.newsguy.com
In article <7baj6j$e57@drn.newsguy.com>, bill@ writes:
> Any way. The whole active X, VB, COM, Windows world is dying. You might not
> see it now, but wait 2-3 years. The new revolution in software is
> happening in the world of open source and the GNU/Linux/Apache and all
> of this will become the new platform where exciting things will be
> developed on (and hopefully Ada will be part of this). And when windows
> die, VB will die with it since that is only place it is used on.
That sounds like a prediction of "will die" rather than a report of
"is dying". Remember the fate of all past advocates in the computing
field who have predicted "my new favorite <whatever> will soon replace
the old trashy <whatever>".
Larry Kilgallen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-02-28 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-18 0:00 CompUSA New Policy David Botton
1999-02-24 0:00 ` schrader01
1999-02-24 0:00 ` DPH
1999-02-24 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-26 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-02-26 0:00 ` fmanning
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-27 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-28 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Bob Collins
1999-02-28 0:00 ` bill
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-01 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` fraser
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Tony Gair
1999-02-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
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