[Forum] A big step forward in cross-platform computing | ANN.lu |
Posted on 15-Sep-2004 22:32 GMT by Gary Goldberg | 39 comments View flat View list |
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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Posted by Fabio Alemagna on 17-Sep-2004 14:06 GMT | In reply to Comment 24 (sutro): Dude, I'd suggesr you to chill down, and dare put a name on those meaningless words. You like Java, it's ok, I don't. .NET is proving to be a far better technology than Java, for a multitude of reasons that, as you correctly say, this is not the place to discuss.
Whatever is your opinion about Java and .NET, it doesn't change the fact that TAO's technology doesn't show to have any future, as the market for virtual machines is saturated already. Java on servers and cellphones, .NET on clients. |
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