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

To: dybdahl who wrote (52455)	10/31/2000 5:29:31 AM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Unix is a world apart from DOS computing (and VMS). Setting aside that so much of MS design is driven by the marketing dept, focus groups and choke-point specialists, there is a legitimate design related difference. MS world engineers look at an ASCII file and think "70's". Unix folks look at an ASCII file and see portable content. Maybe if the Internet wasn't Unix based, didn't run on Unix, wasn't so pervasively Unix services, MS design makes more sense. --- To be sure though, middleware on the n-tier network tends to separate from Unix design philosophy. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out. The n-tier world is built on 'parsers'. Sun is pushing XML/Java. Sun though knows that ASCII isn't "70's". -JCJ