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| Posted on 15-Sep-2004 22:32 GMT by Gary Goldberg | 39 comments
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By Leander Kahney
02:00 AM Sep. 13, 2004 PT
A Silicon Valley startup claims to have cracked one of most elusive goals of the software industry: a near-universal emulator that
allows software developed for one platform to run on any other, with almost no performance hit.
Transitive Corp. of Los Gatos, California, claims its QuickTransit software allows applications to run "transparently" on multiple
hardware platforms, including Macs, PCs, and numerous servers and mainframes...
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64914,00.html?tw=wn_6techhead
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| Comment 1 | Lando | | 15-Sep-2004 23:18 GMT |
| Comment 2 | Andrew Korn | | 15-Sep-2004 23:27 GMT |
| Comment 3 | Joe "Floid" Kanowitz | | 16-Sep-2004 01:11 GMT |
| Comment 4 | Joe "Floid" Kanowitz | | 16-Sep-2004 01:18 GMT |
| Comment 5 | Anonymous | | 16-Sep-2004 01:46 GMT |
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| Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 16-Sep-2004 23:39 GMT | In reply to Comment 20 (Fabio Alemagna):
But you forget that .NET is not a language, .NET is a whole platform based on a virtual machine and a set of libraries aimed at easing development. You can program in whatever language you wish and for which there exists a frontend, with .NET, not so with Java. Yes, both use a virtual machine, but the .NET one is
1) standardized
2) much better at supporting a multitude of languages
Even Java runs on .NET, with comparable or better performances than the "official" Java.
Java may be more widely used, but .NET is simply a better technology.
Well, there are always counterexamples.
More pragmatically:
-With Java you get raped by Sun licensing (and to some extents, Sun engineering) up front.
-With .NET, you get all the cheerful flexibility (such as it may be), but with the threat of being torpedoed by MS patents a few years down the line. (Of course, if you're already invested in software, er... monoculture?... for that time frame, it's not a bad deal, considering MS is going to make you ride that pony anyway when they declare the Windows API end-of-lifed.)
It's an interesting problem, to the extent that, if you believe all the bloggish PR, MS never *intends* to bait and switch... Rather, we're supposed to believe the company simply runs in a constant state of panic, and the bait-and-switch/outright illegal business activities only creep in as 'natural extensions' of honest effort -- The Redmond version of the boneheaded mistakes that see other companies focus on A600s or, yes, 'Open' runtimes that aren't open. Which, when you think about it, is a great big advertisement saying "No matter what we say, you can never trust us!" |
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