From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,517611567e1815f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ? Date: 1999/05/02 Message-ID: <372C00C6.D9AA6D72@online.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 473108679 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <372b0ec7.28153993@news2.ibm.net> <37289A2C.4B78EB60@rocketmail.com> <7gesv8$1bol@drn.newsguy.com> <372BB93F.7DCFD2E1@rocketmail.com> <7ggi1v$p2i@drn.newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@online.no X-Trace: news1.online.no 925631057 130.67.226.91 (Sun, 02 May 1999 09:44:17 MET DST) Organization: Jensen programvareutvikling MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 09:44:17 MET DST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Mike@spam_free wrote: > Why why would any one choose windows, a flaky and closed OS, > with licenses restrictions, and higher costs, over an open system > like Unix for developing applications on is beyond my > comprehension. A reason is that people want to do real work. Only recently have good office support application made their appearances on anything but PCs (Windows, Mac). DDE, OLE (COM) and later ODBC are very good concepts which effectively terminated the usefulness of any competing platform not doing the same. DDE, OLE and ODBC made Windows _the_ integration platforms (crashes? yes, but it _works_ ). This is what makes Windows an effective work platform even if the implementation is not neccessarily efficient and stable. There is also the "minor" point of the X/GUI people deciding that printing was not important and had nothing to do with graphical user interfaces. Calling those who decided that idiots would be cheritable. I have talked to hardened Unix veterans and we pretty much agreed that for real life office work Windows 3.0 on a 286 was more useful than any Unix system. The key words are word prosessing, spreadsheet, presentation graphics and printer drivers (not neccessarily in order of importance). For later versions of Windows you can add access and its work alikes. Greetings,