From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 9 18:33:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEECD37B401 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 18:33:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA20549; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 19:32:07 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010109193013.0493ab50@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 19:31:58 -0700 To: j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: .net, musings, and assorted ramblings In-Reply-To: <20010109182342.A8463@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It shouldn't really be called .Net, but rather .Not or .Naught. It's a "placeholder" strategy while Mr. Ballmer tries to figure out what Microsoft can conquer next.... And while Microsoft fights to get the DoJ case thrown out on appeal. (All of the moves that'd be most advantageous to Microsoft right now would prejudice that case.) --Brett At 11:23 AM 1/9/2001, j mckitrick wrote: >We just got the beta 1 of .net here at work. Any thoughts on where this is >going? I heard there are *nix clones of a few other apps like VB, but is >this next 'revolution' going to have any real impact? > >Win2k seems to have made a big splash, at least in stability, if not raw >sales. A Republican is the new president. M$ seems to be looking pretty >good right now. I have a CDrom of the .net 'vaporware', and I'm wondering >if it's going to matter? Or is the table reversed? Will Unix matter >anymore? > >Is Sun going to get their act together and fight the .net campaign, or just >trip over themselves trying to decide just *what* their software strategy >will be? > >Just wanted to get the thoughts of all the BSD folks here on chat, >'specially those "in the know". ;) > >jcm >-- >o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o >| ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jonathon McKitrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | >| "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | >o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message