Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Tech Predictions: 2007 Edition
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> | # .NET: Thousands of developers will horribly abuse WPF in ways that
> | can only be called nightmarish
> |
2007 is the year that developers realize that .NET is just another
elaborate dead end,
as was COM, OLE, Auatomation, COM++ and all the rest of the proprietary
buzzword crap that Microsoft dreams up on a fairly regular basis.
Microsoft had made a major strategic blunder in not realising a new
file system
with their intrusive "Vista" operating system. Perhaps they had
problems trying to justify things such as the hidden "Alternate" data
streams and other "technologies" of questionable safety to American
business.
Meanwhile, Linux has advanced to the point where it is indeed a viable
and perhaps even reccomended alternative to Microsoft - the savings in
costs are significant not to mention the dramatically better Linux
documentation, ease of use, power and ubiquitiy as opposed to the
PONDEROUS Microsoft "Developer" CD's ($$$), Help Systems (guaranteed to
waltz you past every possible Microsoft product before you ever find
out whatever it was you wanted to know) and endless white papers, bug
corrections, how to's, work arounds - all of the verbiage that mght be
expected when you take a variety of ad hoc gui's and pieces of kernels,
glop them all together in various stations of miscompletion and then
call THAT an operating system. Ever notice how every Microsoft
operating system is always built on a "foundation" of some previous
Microsoft system?? Well now their secret is out.
For over 20 years, Microsoft has stifled innovation and sabotaged
competiton with tricks that would have brought anti-trust violations
against any other industry. This policy has brought enormous profits
to them and enormous control - but, just as with the Soviet Union's
overextended position which inevitably lead to their internal economic
decline, so each gain by Microsoft has been undercut by a greater and
greater instability in their products and a greater and greater
necessity of over-reliance on their proprietary technologies by those
foolish enough to commit their companies' resources to it.
The first major exposure to the Microsoft's true vulnerability occured
in the early 90's
when Bill got caught flat footed as the Netscape browser made the first
inroads in the burgeoning Internet revolution - a revolution which
Gates quickly apprised and tried to make his own, an effort which
Microsoft continues to this day though it is doomed to failure.
There is one major technology prediction for 2007 that has been
expected for a long time but whoose time finally has come. Clever
legal deals with Novell, clever FUD, lawsuits - no of it will stop the
power of an idea whoose time has come and that idea is
LINUX.
It will be fun to watch the mad scramble, as the legions of zombie
windows developers
persist in loyalty to the Microsoft methods that they hold so dear (not
noticing the betrayal of the Visual Basic 6 folks, loyal to the end
even as the rug was pulled out from under them).
There will be more assertions from Oracle and many other proprietary
vendors
on how their software is the one final and great solution for
businesses - but it will be Linux which exposes the real truth, that
business software needs to be far more diverse, far more responsive to
paradigm shifts and far more innovative than the so-called "ultimate"
solutions that any single proprietary vendor can ever hope to provide.
As this becomes clear, the switch to Linux will proceed exponentially
and swiftly, leaving Microsoft in the same position as IBM in the 80's
- a legacy system with some oddball deadended "innovations" that nobody
wants to bother with.
Citizen Jimserac
James Pannozzi
Citizen Jimserac
James Pannozzi
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