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Oracle Counters Microsoft's .Net Initiative
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| Countering the .Net initiative that bitter rival Microsoft Corp. announced
| earlier this year, Oracle Corp. last week released software for use in
| developing and managing online services.
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| In a swipe at Microsoft, which doesn't expect to deliver a full portfolio of
| its .Net-based technologies for two years or more, Oracle is informally
| referring to its Oracle9i Dynamic Services software as .Now.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=web_services&articleId=55345&taxonomyId=61&intsrc=kc_top
Recent:
Microsoft settles patent lawsuit over .Net
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| Microsoft has reached a settlement in a patent-infringement lawsuit filed
| last year by Vertical Computer Systems, according to a filing by the mediator
| in the case: PDF, 1 page. The Fort Worth, Texas, company's complaint alleged
| that Microsoft's .Net development system violated a patent issued to Vertical
| in November 2004.
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/144577.asp?source=rss
- From Win32 to Cocoa, Part II
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| In part one, Bright heavily criticised the Win32 API, saying it was filled
| with legacy stuff and hindered by 15 year old design decisions. In part two
| he explains that as an answer to the complaints, Microsoft introduced
| the .Net framework, which was supposed to replace the Win32 API as the API of
| choice for Windows; in fact, the next release of Windows, Longhorn, would
| make heavy use of .Net. "It could have provided salvation," Bright writes.
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| But it didn't. According to Bright, .Net was fine technically, with a "sound"
| virtual machine, "reasonable" performance, and an "adequate" language (C#),
| but the library - "used for such diverse tasks as writing files, reading data
| from databases, sending information over a network, parsing XML, or creating
| a GUI" - the library is "extremely bad". Bright explains that this is due to
| the target audience of .Net.
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http://www.osnews.com/story/19714
Related:
Miguel, Mono and Microsoft
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| is Mono's role in the deal that of a hook to make customers write
| .NET applications because they can be run on Linux - only to find
| later on that they are armless or legless because of a change in
| the .NETspecifications, a change which Microsoft decides not to
| make public?
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| [...]
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| And here we have an individual who decides to replicate one of
| the proprietary company's development environments - for reasons
| best known to him alone - and keeps telling people that the reason
| he's doing it is so that he can pull people over from the
| proprietary company's side to his side!!!
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11081&Itemid=1091
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