Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 15:56:19 02/24/03
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On February 24, 2003 at 14:38:08, Daniel Clausen wrote: >On February 24, 2003 at 13:08:31, Matt Taylor wrote: > >[snip] > >>.NET is part of Microsoft's answer to Java, but it has a much broader scope. >>Rather than simply being a cross-platform language, .NET is a cross-platform >>environment that supports many languages. > >Not that I would choose .NET, if cross-platform _really_ is an issue. ;) > >Sargon There is currently an on-going Sourceforge project to port the .NET CLR to a Unix environment. I've heard talk of .NET BIOS code, operating systems, etc. In other words, it scales where Java fails to. You are right -- support isn't there yet, but Microsoft is pushing it along. I don't know if it will ever provide serious competition to Java. Personally I don't really care, either. :-) -Matt
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