Hm. I may have to regret asking for flames. This is one audience that MS won't be able to play to. I'm not expert in any of these technologies, though I am a competent Unix/Linux hack/admin and web programmer. I've only been looking at .NET for a week or but from what I've seen MS is honestly trying to shed the dead weight of their previous DCOM and COM technologies and start from scratch. If ASP.NET pans out, MS will win the web war, they have a cleaner design and deployment model than Java/JSP/Servlets. I'll have to see if .NET is any less of a pig than Java. I hate the fact that you have to jump through several hoops to get multiple apps to run under a single Java VM and how much overhead there is for running a Java VM. I'll have to look into how .NET does this, but it appears it may have a single instance of the VM that can be partitioned into multiple application spaces. Yes, C# looks a LOT like Java in purpose and form but it is not Java in disguise. My first impressions are that .NET is a better general purpose VM with a broader range of application than Java's VM. They have already done one better than Java by submitting C# (and VB.NET I believe) for standardization. They have openly published their overall design and goals with CIL allowing the public to replicate their efforts for portability to other platforms. If projects like portable.NET and Mono are successful we'll see .NET available for other platforms. -Freeman "I have come to see with eyes unclouded with hatred", Price Ashitaka, "Princess Mononoke" > -----Original Message----- > From: Freeman P. Pascal IV [mailto:] > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:13 PM > To: Wear-Hard > Subject: XP embedded and .NET... > > > Has anyone played with Microsoft's XPE (embedded), > or where to acquire it? I'm curious how viable it > is for use with Pentium or better based wearables. > > Though I have been a life long user of Unix/Linux > and perfer coding in Java, I have to admit that > Microsoft may have hit upon something with .NET > especially if they can replicate Java's portability > and advance tech like Jini. > > Thoughts, comments, even flames? > > -Freeman > > > > -- > Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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