On Tuesday 15 November 2005 6:34 pm, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
I also had existing apps that I could run on NT but not on UnixWare. That is going to remain a problem for Linux for quite some time. This in why I was infavor of Wine and am grudgingly in favor of Mono and DotGnu. It's also on of the big reasons I like Java.
Do underestimate Micorsoft. Dave Cutler ain't no slouch. They've also bought Herb Sutter and Stan (aughta be ashamed) Lipmann.
Dave Cutler isn't all that great either! He never could come up with the code to stop memory leaks in VMS, nor did he ever write the needed code to occasionally recover memory in VMS. He's not the "super coder" you seem to think he is. Now, there's the truth. Fred -- Paid purchaser of ALL SuSE Linux releases since 6.x