William Hindman
wdhindman at bellsouth.net
Fri Dec 9 20:49:28 CST 2005
...looks and acts like my old high school football coach :) William ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil at users.mns.ru> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 6:14 PM Subject: Re: [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?... >> > >> > -- >> > AccessD mailing list >> > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > >> >> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >