[AccessD] OT: How Microsoft Lost the API War

William,

Did you follow this link from Joel's article (Developers,...)-
http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html ?

Looks really funny - he reminds me Canadian (ice hockey) coaches - I did
like to watch ice hockey matches a long ago when I was young (and I liked to
play it too of course.  And ice is getting here covering Finnish Gulf
waters - soon it will be possible to go skating or skiing(ski-kiting) on
it. - he's where the source of my nostalgia comes from...)...

Shamil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Hindman" <wdhindman at bellsouth.net>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 1:22 AM
Subject: Re: [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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