[AccessD] OT: How Microsoft Lost the API War

...interesting article but betting against Gates hasn't proved profitable in 
the past ...but it does remind me of the whole imbroglio with DAO and ADO in 
VBA ...what a screw-up on MS' part.

...I'm starting to deploy small asp.net apps on intranets now ...just 
getting my feet wet ...but so far, the users love it and I really like being 
able to divorce myself from their desktops.

William

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil at users.mns.ru>
To: "!DBA-MAIN" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 4:21 PM
Subject: [AccessD] OT: How Microsoft Lost the API War


> The article:
>
> "How Microsoft Lost the API War"
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
>
> looks like an exaggeration here.
>
> But VB6 incompatibility with VB.NET is a bad move IMO, which would have 
> been
> avoided with not that much efforts.
>
> And the technology race lead(?) by MS looks really crazy(expensive) from
> here for many years now...
>
> The "safe" combinations of programming languages a' la MS(i.e. if you 
> still
> decide to keep up going with MS like I do because I don't  have/I don't 
> see
> any other opportunities) looks like pure C++ programming, with ATL/WTL
> and .NET wrappers and ASP.NET...
>
> This my crazy(?)  passage from 1st of May this year looks like becoming 
> not
> that crazy now in he light of the last Joel's article -
> http://www.smsconsulting.spb.ru/shamil_s/idlpetit.htm....
>
> Any other opinions?
>
> Shamil
>
> P.S. Easy to say not easy to do, as well as easy to blame not easy to make
> it better - that's is clear - this my e-mail is not a "blame attempt" - 
> it's
> an invitation to talk how to make things better(less expensive, more
> effective, backward compatible) in IT if possible at all....
>
> ....if you, knowledgeable ALL, will say that what happens is natural  - 
> let
> it be - I'm not here to change this World, am I?...
>
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