Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 4th Feb 2004 05:34 UTC
According to statistics, Java continues to have the crown of the most used VM-based platform in the industry. However, Microsoft's C# and .NET gain ground every day. While C# might or might not overcome Java in the following years, the fact remains that more and more programmers want the choice of C# among their developer tools. So, where does this situation leave Apple?
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What if I want to run a web application I wrote on ASP.NET on these nicely looking XServes?"
I agree with what others have said about this. We've had this situation for years. Currently within my organization, we have websites that were deployed with Active X controls, which obviously won't work on a Mac. And for what reason? What was gained that couldn't have been done with JavaScript?
Most all of these Microsoft sort of things are a bastardization of the internet standards. In my opinion, as much of the programming should be kept on the server as possible, which should transmit HTML or XML data accessible from any platform. (Another problem with the design is that it requires too much of the client. At my workplace, even Windows machines get blocked from websites as their Active X installations aren't the same).
All of these efforts from Microsoft to tie the internet directly into Windows APIs, is part of the same old strategy to lock out everyone else, and require Windows use.
.Net is not an open standard that Apple can just implement. When you have been convicted of abusing a monopoly position, it shouldn't be that everyone else is still required to reverse-engineer your technology, as Microsoft recently stated.