Re: C++ with VS.NET and Twilight of the Microsoft Era
- From: "Jimserac" <Jimserac@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 18 Oct 2006 06:58:23 -0700
Questions have arisen on this and other related newsgroups
about the misleading or confusing naming of Microsoft
development tools and other curious nomenclatures
such as the terms "managed" and "unmanaged".. etc..
The bottom line is that you have to understand the Microsoft
is not designing software to make things easy for the developer
as they once might have (some time ago) but instead
are creating their development environments to manipulate
and position everyone to be locked into their proprietary
software. In addition, they wish to streamline the process
of outsourcing vis a vis the building and managment
of their complicated components which have been
twisted and tortured into shape for marketing rather
than developmental positions. Can anyone forget
OLE and COM and the great hype that Microsoft gave us
versus the MESS that was involved when you tried
to use them?
Their goal remains the same - control of Internet applications,
a subset of their goal of "control of the desktop".
In this they have partly failed, much to their chagrin,
because Java persists and there are major new ways to
make desktop apps Internet aware - for example the remarkable
Ajax, in addition to the gravest threat of all - Linux,
which, despite all of its shortcommings, has the advantage
of an active and open development community
which means that each month that goes by Linux is
catching up to, and probably already has surpassed,
anythiing that Vista may offer.
Microsoft has made a major strategical error in not updating
the Windows File system to that promised for the new Vista
operating system and this was a critical error which
gives a major strategic opportunity to switch to
alternative systems.
Many IT managers, understandably tired of their desktop applications'
software developers being unable to create everything they needed,
foolishly took the short term solution of replacing everything in a
giant database - this was the trend at least a few years ago, with the
double failure that their IT budgets are now drowning in red ink to pay
for the Oracle or whatever database, the server, the maintenance
expenses and staff and they have everything locked into this which
means in a few years they will have to expensively upgrade or else
switch to a new system.
Instead, the answer is to take this historic opportunity to break away
from the expensive licensing fees and lock-in typical of Microsoft
envrioronments and seek an alternative solution (yes, Linux!!) before
Vista establishes itself worldwide and an entire generation of
companies is again locked into the same old straightjacket.
Yes, Linux can be tricky to work with - but much has changed and as I
mentioned,
every month a worldwide group of developers is improving and fine
tunning Linux so that it has long since passed the point where it is
appropos for business to use.
At the very least, take a spare computer and put in a Suse 10.1 or
Fedora distro and try it out - I believe you and your programmers will
be rewarded.
Are there some bugs or problems with LInux - Yes of course there are
but XP and all operating systems have them too (for example, I have on
my XP desktop a folder with some files in it which will not allow
itself to be deleted, even though I am the administrator and even
though I tried to remove the "read only" check mark from this file;
this is on a fully updated windows xp professional desktop and
Microsoft still has not fixed this bug, probably have not even
acknowledged it).
The end result is that YOU will now control your corporate, business,
scientific and personal software - YOU will control the budget, YOU
will not be forced to pay for "extra" information that should have been
included with the operating system or the developement software in the
first place. I know it is a difficult - even risky choice, but not is
the time.
Those braindead managers who perisist in automatically choosing
Microsoft products
and development systems will earn their just rewards as they gradually
are outdistanced by managers of companies who are more agile, more
creative, more intelligent
and better able to adjust to rapid changes in markets and envrionments.
GET BACK IN CONTROL. AVOID VISTA!!!!!!!!
Jimserac
James Pannozzi
(former Windows Developer)
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