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To: Kashish King who wrote (3527)9/24/1996 7:33:00 AM
From: Shibumi   of 186894
 
I am beginning to despair that I am talking to anyone human: I'd swear that I'm really talking to a bunch of A.I. programs that only take keywords from what I write but have no semantic understanding of what I really wrote.

Rod -- this is the 5th or 6th letter posted in response to something I've written telling me that the NC sucks. Hey -- I've been saying that the NC sucks since I began posting (and a long time before that).

But from what I can tell I fall outside of the "NC-hater" camp because I'm not willing to either (a) say that there is no need for a lower cost, simpler PC and that Intel will dominate forever if they just keep doing what they're doing, Amen, and (b) bash Ellison and his minion enough.

Hey -- I'm sorry I can't fit into either camp. I do believe the NC sucks. I do believe that Ellison and his cronies are trying to do something that is vendor focused as opposed to customer focused. And yet I also believe that leaving 70% of the U.S. population disenfranchised is not a very smart STRATEGY (not tactics, but strategy) by Intel and Microsoft.

Finally, I find it hard to dismiss Oracle as a company that sees applications as a "bunch of forms". As someone who has written Oracle SQL statements and has programmed to Microsoft's MFC, I'd be hard pressed not to call out Microsoft as the form-lover of all time. Both companies are getting better, however -- Windows 95/NT was a major step forward as was the latest version of MFC and VC++ 4.2. Oracle's latest InterOffice, with its increasing focus on Java as a tool to allow depth, is also an improvement.

Mark
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