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Re: no dice yet on .net server?


A while back I wrote an opinion piece about how OS vendors to developers a disservice by getting them to write their apps to platform-specific APIs:

Freeing the Developer from OS Vendor Shackles
http://zoolib.sourceforge.net/doc/why.html

I think the posix subsystem in NT was originally meant to qualify Windows for government procurement. It's for much the same reason that Apple developed A/UX.

But now that lots of people in the government are using Windows, they're using Win32 apps and not running stuff in posix anymore. So I guess those regulations seem to have fallen by the wayside.

Mike
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Michael D. Crawford
GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
http://www.goingware.com/
crawford@goingware.com

Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.


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