Martin Reid
mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk
Sun May 27 15:21:06 CDT 2012
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/education/students/software-and-developer-tools.aspx All free. Will this change? Martin Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Jim Lawrence Sent: 27/05/2012 21:00 To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] More on Windows 8 promises... Even Apple does not sell its development tools. (Some tools may cost but they are very cheap.) That is the kiss of death as all computer science students, the future leaders of the computer world need to become familiar with the tools-of-the-trade...and they tend to be very poor. Have you ever wondered why Open Standard systems have enjoyed the best growth and highest level on innovation? A good developer is born and not necessarily educated. Most of the young guys I met, in the business, started their careers sometime around 9 or 10, maybe before. They have no money so they gravitate to what ever is cheap or free and simplest to use. Apache over IIS, MySQL over MS SQL, Java/PHP over the new .Net, Linux Servers over MS Servers. Ninety percent of all innovation in the computer industry is created by these young hackers; NoSQL DBs, Event driven internet servers, Linux OS, Cloud development, JavaScript tools, and a huge number of development tools. (Major companies have been harvesting these innovation for years.) Aside: Patent trolls have been making the development of any software an expensive legal nightmare so most new software is patented under the many Open Source dictates which makes its designers safe from legal action but also makes the software unsellable. This is why MS is blocking all this type of software...OSS has been challenging their supremacy and profitability since the early nineties. I see MS as putting up another complex series of road blocks to developers, of the future, as nothing more than stupidity. Abandoning, their desktop roots is one thing but to hobble even their established desktop developers, by not supporting back compatibility or legacy software, blocking OSS, blocking all other browsers and charging a premium to future developers is not going to make their company another Apple. The truth is that Apple does not make a majority of its income from software; it is a HARDWARE company that supports software through its web based distribution system. Jim Sent from my very old Windows XP PC desktop ___________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Martin Reid Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 11:56 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] More on Windows 8 promises... And this differs from apple in what way? Martin Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com