Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Microsoft to Release Visual Studio 2005 for Unix/Linux
Microsoft to Release Visual Studio 2005 for Unix/Linux
http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=33023
If you are thinking that this was an April Fools joke that came too late. Think again. I have to say, the guys know how to productize and sell.
When it was time to capture the desktop market share, they did and made the billions.
I think someone realized certain strong points about Linux... and some flavours of "optimized linux". Now, XP Professional 64-bit "supposedly" optimizes itself for a given system in much the same way people fine tune their linux systems for their machine. I remember speaking to a friend of mine who is a "Gentoo" and "ex Slackware" fanatic who was giving me a run down on how that optimization process works.
Plus, the next generation of kids will not be technically challenged. Most will begin to use and experiement with linux, which has jumped leaps and bounds from where it used to be a few years back. Looking at this as a "market shift" it is "strong farsight" into looking at the strongly regarded Linux/Apache platforms as a base for the next generation products.
So Mono (.NET for Linux and Mac OS-X) is not going to go neglected.
I can see the papers... "Extra Extra.. Get your favourite development environment on your favourite open source platform". :)
PS: This was a joke .. hehe.. but the funny thing is there is a definite and possible business case here as the population slowly starts becoming more and more linux / open source savvy. Maybe not in 5 years.. but that would depend on how savvy the next generation becomes with computers and how fast.
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http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=33023
If you are thinking that this was an April Fools joke that came too late. Think again. I have to say, the guys know how to productize and sell.
When it was time to capture the desktop market share, they did and made the billions.
I think someone realized certain strong points about Linux... and some flavours of "optimized linux". Now, XP Professional 64-bit "supposedly" optimizes itself for a given system in much the same way people fine tune their linux systems for their machine. I remember speaking to a friend of mine who is a "Gentoo" and "ex Slackware" fanatic who was giving me a run down on how that optimization process works.
Plus, the next generation of kids will not be technically challenged. Most will begin to use and experiement with linux, which has jumped leaps and bounds from where it used to be a few years back. Looking at this as a "market shift" it is "strong farsight" into looking at the strongly regarded Linux/Apache platforms as a base for the next generation products.
So Mono (.NET for Linux and Mac OS-X) is not going to go neglected.
I can see the papers... "Extra Extra.. Get your favourite development environment on your favourite open source platform". :)
PS: This was a joke .. hehe.. but the funny thing is there is a definite and possible business case here as the population slowly starts becoming more and more linux / open source savvy. Maybe not in 5 years.. but that would depend on how savvy the next generation becomes with computers and how fast.
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