From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy
Date: 1999/03/01
Date: 1999-03-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7be3im$c00$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1999Feb28.071208.1@eisner
In article <1999Feb28.071208.1@eisner>,
Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote:
> In article <7baj6j$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".
The quoted paragraph here represents a fair amount of
wishful thinking. In reality, if indeed GNU/Linux/Apache
is that successful, it can only achieve its success by
being able to host a wide variety of software, including
existing Win32 and VB stuff. As for Active X, I suspect
you are simply not aware of the huge library of components
that is currently available. Again, success will require
arranging for reuse of this library.
If the model is to rewrite the world, it has much less
chance of success.
Note that there are definite movements in the direction
I suggest here. For example, WINE (sp?) the project to
duplicate the Win32 interface on GNU/Linux is getting
closer to being truly practical.
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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 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
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 ` Larry Kilgallen
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 [this message]
1999-02-28 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` fraser
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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