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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: keithsha who wrote (49637)	9/21/2000 2:33:36 AM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Very different from Sun's everybody must use our language approach that lacks this kind of richness of tools and choice. --- You would have done well there at Microsoft if you would have started 10 years earlier. --- I'm sure getting a kick here out of reading a MS employee position MS development tools as an alternative to Sun. <g> -JCJ

To: keithsha who wrote (49637)	9/21/2000 2:29:07 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Funny that you mention "richness". If you look at how Linux is built up, it is extremely primitive. All the applications in a standard Linux are primitive. Even the APIs are not very advanced. But they do the same job as a Windows PC. Normally I use the example of MS IIS, because it is the worst example I know of a user interface, that is far too complicated for the simple task it is meant to do. It is extremely silly to give the administrator all the possible options in the GUI, without indication of the default values, and without the possibility to copy and paste parts of a configuration from one virtual host to another. Especially the most simple task of all: Mail forms. I mean, it should just be one command in .asp files, but they put it into the administration GUI!!! We have replaced several mail forms with PHP scripting or redirects to Linux servers because that was easier than changing settings in the IIS administration tools. People don't want richness. They want the job done. One of our partners has a piece of interactive GUI database software that is installed on approx. 20,000 PCs on primary schools. Support hotline is free and occupies one fulltime support person. Getting so few support calls would not have been possible, if Microsoft design guidelines were followed, or Visual Basic would have been involved.