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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-19 00:47:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!lnsnews.lns.cornell.edu!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!ngpeer.news.aol.com!newsfeed1!bredband!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died)) Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 07:47:57 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3lIxa.13309$8g5.207727@news2.e.nsc.no> <3PJxa.13336$8g5.208066@news2.e.nsc.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1053330477 2045 129.241.83.78 (19 May 2003 07:47:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 07:47:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37501 Date: 2003-05-19T07:47:57+00:00 List-Id: Tarjei T. Jensen wrote: > Its simply too much to list everything. > > Some things: DDE, DCOM, printing, HTML applications (HTA), jet, various APIs > (mapi, odbc, etc). Once you start digging, you find a lot of interesting > things. The object stuff is wonderful compared to what we have in Unix. So you don't have printing on a Unix? In another post you said user authentication and access. You mean unix doesn't have that either? I don't know what you mean by HTML applications when you talk about the Windows OS. > .Net is an extension of DCOM. People ar excited about .Net because it is an > excellent idea. And this is related to NT4 how? > BTW. Until Gnome came along, I've spent 10 years trying to get Unix people > to understand that support for printing does not equal lpd support. With > Gnome comes the first real understanding of user needs into the Unix > universe. Now you are not talking about the OS, but about the applications. Either you have to compare Windows as a desktop versus Linux or some other Unix desktop or as server to server. You cannot compare apples, bananas and pinapples. Here, at the universe the Windows network servers are run on Unix machines (using Samba). > The main problem with microsoft is they start with something and then just > stop without finishing properly or the project continues in a completely > haphazard manner oblivious to user needs. That I agree on :-) > BTW: You should read Alan Cooper's "The Inmates Are Running The Asylum". He > will change how you look at software development. He will help you focus. On > the other hand; he is quite annoying and not always right. Will do :-) But this is Ada group, so I'll stop this discussion for my part here. Have been down this road so many times before :-) -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/