On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:21:05 +0100 Peter Onion Peter.Onion@btinternet.com wrote:
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 21:26 +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
Hi all,
Um, this came to the main-admin address today, I'm not quite sure what to make of it, any ideas? We did have an email about a talk from Graham Parker on a similar subject (Windows and .net) a few months back but I think that we talked about it on irc, and then forgot about it.
Hi A colleague of mine, Graham Parker, is looking to reach out further into the community this year.
I think he's got the wrong community looking at the subject matter.
yes, although I had to read carefully I would ask the other lugs before inviting him. though if the clients where windows and the server was Linux he might just be on to a very good talk! Some of us have to work for our keep, out side software houses.
Its a more typical way round in SME's in my opinion and increasingly ubuntu or other Linux distributions will take over the desktop space. I do hope we still have new operating systems, Plan 9's idea of every application having to mount the file system and the GUI, denying access seem the best security measure in my opinion. Vitalisation such as VMS seams the most practical solution to my processing/IO resource in my opinion, while reliable messaging systems such as IBM's operating systems are built on are just expensive on every other platform. I bet semantic web browsers if they happen will come out on Microsoft first.
Shame about the talk really, If the clients where windows and the server was Linux hosted he might just be on to a very good talk! People would be queueing up pay to here about it all, and suprised he gives away free talks to linux groups. Regards
Owen
PS
And if he had better developer tools for Linux I should like to know but kylix is getting thier but still no hint of powerPC, or much intrest from the hacker hobbist, I hope Borland realise the future is no longer chip architecture bound, it is not much interest if its only for the CV, Linux is not longer just for fun!