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Sunday May 18, 2003

.NET is dead, long live .NET

Comments[0] by Dave in Microsoft
So now it's April 2003 and I'm hearing that .NET is dead--that Microsoft will continue downplaying both the name .NET and the technologies behind it. You can find hints all around that this ".NOT" strategy might be happening right now.

Sounds like something Carlos would say, and that is where I picked up this story, but the quote is from Paul Thurott, a windows advocate and news editor for Windows and .NET Magazine. Sounds ominous, but I think there is really nothing to worry about here for .NET developers. Microsoft might be ditching the .NET brand and marketing campaign, so what? Microsoft goes through branding campaigns like they go through database access technologies.

Maybe Microsoft realizes that spending money on marketing development tools does not drive sales in operating systems, office applications, gaming, wireless, or other markets where customers don't know a compiler from a Throbmaster 9000. Maybe they'll replace their whole developer relations department and marketing division with a Robert Scoble-edited dev-blog. Wouldn't that be fun? Or, maybe Microsoft believes that they've already won the marketing battle against the fractured Java/J2EE community and vendors. I mean, look at the push-back Werner is getting from his clients.

De-emphasizing the .NET brand and marketing campaign does not change the fact that the .NET framework, the CLR, and C# are the future for Windows developers.

Only 5 Java-based databases?

Comments[4] by Dave in Java

Eric Foster-Johnson lists the Java databases: McKoi SQL, HSQLSB, Axion, PointBase, Cloudscape, Ozone, Apache Xindice, and eXist.

Be prepared to defend yourself.

Comments[0] by Dave in Blogging
Joi Ito on the Creative Commons licenses: So what does this mean to Joe CC user? When you are about to post a picture or a quote that is questionable from a free speech or fair use perspective, be prepared to defend yourself.

In search of fresh feeds.

Comments[0] by Dave in Blogging

It is a cold and rainy weekend here. This is a perfect time for doing Roller development or reading those chapters I'm supposed to be reviewing, but I just can't get motivated. When I sit down at my computer, the only thing I want to do is to explore. Look for new weblogs, sources of info, etc. I went through my blogroll and did some reorganizaton, I signed up for Blogshares and explored blogs from the valuation angle and, as a result, I added a bunch of new blogs to my RSS news reader. I added the aggregated DotNewWeblogs.com feed, the aggregated Artima feeds, some Corante feeds, a bunch of FreeRoller bloggers (I can't wait for 0.9.7 with the aggregated site feed feature), and a couple of employment related blogs (The Job Blog and Hiring Technical People).

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