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To: Amy J who wrote (137395)6/14/2001 12:00:53 PM
From: GVTucker  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Amy, RE: Innovation takes creativity and vision. .NET is about that, and has absolutely nothing to do with conspiracy theories.


I stated that Microsoft's primary focus was maximizing revenue and income. That isn't a conspiracy theory, that's capitalism.

That said, I understand the theory behind .NET. The biggest problem I see for it logistically is that Microsoft is behind the curve right now. The .NET push is dependent upon Microsoft getting a much bigger push in the enterprise world, and this probably depends a lot upon working with IA-64. The problem is coming up with a stable Microsoft platform on IA-64, which they're still working on. Linux, however, is already running on IA-64. And Linux is ideally suited for the world that you describe. The operating system almost becomes invisible.

What is really interesting to me in all this is that the .NET revenue model is very similar to what Red Hat paints as their revenue model for the future. Indeed, Red Hat has been talking about this model for much longer than Microsoft has made the .NET concept public. Next, note that Ballmer et. al. have recently stepped up their attack on open source in general and Linux in specific as of late. The whole scenario then fits pretty well, at least for me.
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