Re: For Your Amusement
- From: erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx (J French)
- Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 09:34:57 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:08:34 -0500, "BeastFish"
<beastfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
>Also, one of my "theories" is... some folks at MS weren't happy that VB grew
>from an "enterprise" solution for creating in-house business apps into
>something more, something that folks can use to actually create apps for
>general consumption (and make money with them), and vbNET is their attempt
>to remedy that, reign it back into an "enterprise-only" tool.
You may well be right there
Did you know that MS wrote the BASIC on the Commodore PET, also on the
Apple - combine that with MS Basic on CP/M and they were everywhere
My view is that it was the BASICs on small machines combined with
Visicalc that made PCs take off and enticed IBM into the market
I liken MS's current approach to the delusion that airlines have about
the profitability of Business and First Class versus Economy
.
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