The real deal, eh?

Who does this guy think he is, Joe Scarborough? I am constantly appalled by the commpany that I work for, and the meaningless drivel they publish. If the media has a liberal bias, then the tech-media version of the political parties would have to be Microsoft (Republicans/Conservatives) v. Linux/Sun/Open Source (Democrats/Liberals). Haven't I read this before? Oh yeah, I have. Scott McNealy talked the same kind of smack 4 months ago. Here are some highlights:

“Redmond's approach to Web services is a dead-end of closed, Windows-only systems that lock customers into a single computing model. Customers don't have the freedom to choose the best hardware or operating system.”

“Ultimately, .Net defeats the purpose of open standards because Microsoft products are open only as long as you develop applications on the Windows platform.“

Uh, come again? Why is it that seemingly NO ONE in the liberal tech-media has ever heard of the SCCLI or MONO? .NET runs on Linux you freak. You're a journalist. Try doing some.....I don't know.... investigation into your articles?

Just another prime example of C|NET and it's anti-Microsoft slant. Changing that mentality from inside Builder.com has proved harder than I thought. But see, this guy is nothing like my hero Joe. Joe at least takes the time to present both sides of the argument after he gives his real “real deal“. Sure, it's still slanted towards his opinions, but at least he gives both sides equal time. Shoot, the .NET camp couldn't even get a word in edgewise.

I would have a lot more respect for the open source community if they were more balanced and factual in their opinions. The same goes for Democrats. I continue to be a registered Republican because, no matter how screwed up they are, the continue to stand for something other than “F$%# Bush“. Open source will earn the respect of respectable developers when they can stand for something other than “F$#% Microsoft“. But that won't happen anytime soon. In the meantime, check out how grown up the other side really is.

 

5 Comments

  • I agree. That article is a real nimrod who hasn't done his homework



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    "Contrary to Microsoft's claims, open standards does not necessarily mean open environments. Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has said that .Net delivers benefits as a Web services platform through XML (Extensible Markup Language) connectivity extended across clients and servers. The problem with that simplistic view is that while XML and Web services break down barriers when used with open standards, .Net creates insidious new barriers by promoting vendor lock-in for customers.

    </cite>



    What barriers. If he is talking about writing Java code on a Windows box. If so, nothing is stopping him. Who says Microsoft has to adopt Sun's standards of Java anyway. duhhh. Furthermore, if he is talking about writing webservices with .net that interoperate with other "java" platforms. They do interoperate. If he is talking about interoperating following WS-Security specification. They do. I just went through a whole proof of concept that proved java could interoperate with our webservices using WS-Security. There are no "insidious" barriers using .net based webservices.



    This article and this nimrod really got me fired up. I will have to blog about it later

  • I know you're not into flamewars...but if .NET doesn't run on Linux - I'm seeing things...as I have it running on Linux (Mandrake 9.0) right now with some fairly heavyweight apps. MONO 0.26 is VERY stable and runs *most* .NET apps without any modification.

    It's what VMWare was made for (also really annoys my Unix guru friends when I show them a GTK# app :-)

  • Not into flamewars either. But who says that .Net needs to run on Linux anyway for interoperability of webservices? Take this quote for example:

    <cite name="bob cancilla">

    Redmond's approach to Web services is a dead-end of closed, Windows-only systems that lock customers into a single computing model. Customers don't have the freedom to choose the best hardware or operating system. Where does that leave the millions of users who rely on non-Microsoft platforms such as mainframes, Unix or Linux?

    </cite>

    This statement is a moronic statement and wholly without forthought.



    If you are writing a webservice on a Microsoft platform, then use .Net or use BEA WebStudio or IBM WSTK 3.3.



    I actually like the Java language, but who says that its Microsoft's responsibility to provide it. Or provide an implementation of their tools on Linux. The questions are:

    1) Can Java tools run on Windows platform effectively?

    Answer) Yes

    2) Can Webservices created with .Net interoperate with Java based systems without any special coding?

    Answer) Yes



    Everything else is academic.

  • Well, I was going more for how they are portrayed in the media then the actual ideal, but I think you get the drift. And I think MS is very Republican.

  • Looks like Vnunet.fr has found this article soooo good that they have translated it in French:

    www.zdnet.fr/techupdate/applications/0,39020852,39125045,00.htm ;-))

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