jasonsalas
IS-IT--Management
Has anyone noticed that the so-called movement for developers working with the .NET Framework is based largely around the fact that many sites managers are releasing the "open source documentation" for their sites? Egad! Some devs reveal the methods and bare source code they used to build all the pages on their sites...others ask for a modest "sponsorship fee" in exchange for the code and methods used to produce their works.
Further, has anyone noticed that the majority of these site's layouts all resemble each other? They all share the same general layout:
The thing that's funny to me is that these sites use the same tabled layout which strikes an eerie resemblance to that which has been in use by the open source PHPNuke.org project:
...which in itself broows from the layout that Amazon.com has been using for years:
Hey, I'm not knocking MS or the devs that built these sites....they're great....just kind of interesting to note how MS is plotting to beat out the competition by playing their game a little bit. This is stark contrast to how in the past MS would just competely overwhelm the companies---or acquire them outright.
Heck, the companie's monolithic .NET Framework is based largely on the precept of data universality and applications extensibility...which Sun has popularized for years with Java. The .NET common langauge runtime (CLR) and Microsoft Intermediate Langage (MSIL) are porting schema for ensuring apps built using .NET technologies work on any platform...theorectically. The boom of the whole Linux craze in '99 really shook things up for how companies attack competitively now.
Who was it that said this technology thing is cyclical? So in a sense, the more people advocate the free-flow of information, the more material MS has to work with in developing business strategies. Call it progression, call it crass capitalism....but it's working, with more than a million devs worldwide (including yours truly) using the platform.
Imagine that....Microsoft encoraging fair competition.
Further, has anyone noticed that the majority of these site's layouts all resemble each other? They all share the same general layout:
The thing that's funny to me is that these sites use the same tabled layout which strikes an eerie resemblance to that which has been in use by the open source PHPNuke.org project:
...which in itself broows from the layout that Amazon.com has been using for years:
Hey, I'm not knocking MS or the devs that built these sites....they're great....just kind of interesting to note how MS is plotting to beat out the competition by playing their game a little bit. This is stark contrast to how in the past MS would just competely overwhelm the companies---or acquire them outright.
Heck, the companie's monolithic .NET Framework is based largely on the precept of data universality and applications extensibility...which Sun has popularized for years with Java. The .NET common langauge runtime (CLR) and Microsoft Intermediate Langage (MSIL) are porting schema for ensuring apps built using .NET technologies work on any platform...theorectically. The boom of the whole Linux craze in '99 really shook things up for how companies attack competitively now.
Who was it that said this technology thing is cyclical? So in a sense, the more people advocate the free-flow of information, the more material MS has to work with in developing business strategies. Call it progression, call it crass capitalism....but it's working, with more than a million devs worldwide (including yours truly) using the platform.
Imagine that....Microsoft encoraging fair competition.