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| Time: 08:06 EST/13:06 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Viper | ||
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Even as Microsoft touts the open availability of the underpinnings of its .Net initiative, open-source advocates are working to make sure .Net isn't a Microsoft-only technology. Ximian, a Boston company that works on the Gnome user interface for Linux, is scheduled to announce Monday a software project called "Mono" intended to compete against Microsoft.Net, according to sources familiar with the plan. The move, if successful, could increase the importance and popularity of the Microsoft.Net software-as-a-service strategy while undermining Microsoft's control over the software itself. But analysts caution that .Net itself is a nascent technology, and any attempts to clone it are likely to be even more immature. | ||
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| #1 By 20 (Unknown) at 7/5/2001 9:40:00 AM |
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This is exactly what MS wants. A bunch of disperate platforms communicating together via web services! Duh! There are also Open Source .NET CLR implementations going on for Linux as well! |
| #2 By 20 (Unknown) at 7/5/2001 9:04:00 PM |
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Heh, it's not like that really. Microsoft's plan with .NET seems to be the way the Internet and enterprise is going in general. Rather than having COM/DCOM, Java, CORBA, and all these other competing technologies, none of which interoperate, why don't we have a single unified means of calling services (objects and such) on disperate platforms? Enter SOAP, an open standard (currently in draft, but close to being finalized). Add to that WSDL, another open standard. Everything works together. .NET is just Microsoft's side of that. There will be an implementation from IBM, and Sun as well, and all will be able to partake in each other's services. Of course, .NET will also be cross-platform, so you can use it on FreeBSD, and probably Linux after not-too-long. Many languages are available in .NET fashion, including Perl, Python, SmallTalk, and yes, even COBOL! |
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