Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 19th Nov 2001 19:44 UTC
Today, OSNews features an interview with Zac Woodall, software design Engineer at Office Data and Developer Services at Microsoft Corporation. Zac, who is also a frequent OSNews reader, talks about the new Office, .NET, WindowsXP, NTFS and how it compares to BFS filesystem, the GPL & open source movement and much more.
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First - I was confused of mixed posts reply :-)
Well, as for BeOS and your inability to run your favourite software. Who gives a s..., if you throw in such proprietary software? Connection to Exchange? Heh, Lotus Notes? As for Exchange, we had to switch back to Linux, because it was pretty much slow crap back then. It took 70% of system resources on P133 machine, and even second procesor could not help :-) Linux was OK, no problems with receiving messages. We use Lotus Domino/Notes as intranet system, but really - stop talking crap - nobody expects running LN in other than intranet/corporate environment. I work for company with more than 60 servers intstalled, with some 2K+ LN users, so just don't try to tell me I have no insight ...
As for SOAP, XML - are you really so lazy to even check the situation? BeOS has Rebol, it has Python and I believe that you would found solution, if you would be willing to do so ...
As for Tao. Stop spreading FUD and weight your arguments. You just took one example here, while the situation seems to be the reverse. Try to look at Tao's website: http://tao-group.com/2/tao/press/20010910-bow.html , and even better go directly here: http://tao-group.com/2/tao/press/20010910-ocpa.html . And then - stop sounding like there is nothing except MS, because there are areas of IT, where noone takes MS seriously ... count on it ...
-pekr-