Article:		Why O'Reilly and .NET?
Subject:		What a big lie !
Date:		2001-06-01 02:11:45
From:		toboy
"First, the .NET platform and its growing array of tools promises to radically simplify development of web-enabled applications, such as web services, in ways that Visual Studio did for desktop applications. The open source community has been playing catch-up in this arena for years and no real alternatives exist. " if this came from any other source, I wont complain much and will put it down to ignorance - but O'Reily ? something fishy is going on here. So JBuilder, Forte, VisualAge, NetBeans (best IDE I've ever used and ytes that includes V Studio), IBM WSDK (first full web services SDK) are not "real alternatives" , come on O'Reily, you guys are unto something - at least you have to know that the likes of myself who have grown up swearing by many great O'Reily books should be smart enough to know what a bare faced lie is. I've trusted O'Reily for so long - but now that I know what the power of the mighty D$$ can do - I'll have to look elsewhere - SourceForge.net anyone !

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• What a big lie !
  2001-06-02 03:36:03  sjatkins [Reply | View]
  
  
  What Visual Studio did for desktop applications??? It enabled barely literate programmers to create nice guis using Visual Basic that could not be scaled at all except by the MS MTS framework. It gave us Visual C++ that killed most significant sized C++ projects due to the sheer bulk and braindead wastage of its compiler, linker and IDE tool environment. It finally gave us COM in a more straightforward form as COM++, until you look under the covers.
  
  If we have nothing in OS to compete with this krap then it is high time to write some, not sing the praises of M$.