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[AmigaMac]

BBRV,

Is there any way that Genesi and Amiga Inc. can settle this matter peacefully?  This sort of thing only seems to hurt the Amiga community in the end and only strengthens Microsoft's dominance by the fragmentation of other computing platforms by internal problems/feuds.

It would be great to see the 2 companies form an alliance and keep with their strategies while building a solid foundation for the Amiga Developer community.  The idea of having 2 Amiga platforms out there is actually a good thing (I came to realize that now) which will help push innovation for the Amiga platform drastically.  Also with 2 companies pushing for the platform should help build a strong developer base for Amiga apps.

Can't we all just get along  :-?

[AmigaMac]

I read most of the MONO/dotNET posts, so here is my 2 cents;

It could go in its own direction, but that would be counter-productive unless its adoption starts to rival that of the Microsoft original.

The Ximian connection comes from the fact that they were instrumental in starting the MONO project, long before Novell entered they picture.

Toying with MONO (or dotGNU as it will be known) is playing a very dangerous game.  Microsoft has shown time and time again that they don't mind breaking compatibility with sidekick standards (DOS, J++, .doc, etc...), and this will certainly be the case with MONO.

The idea behind such technologies is to make them hardware agnostic.

It would be in the best interest to stick with Java for web services since Sun Microsystems doesn't mind others to join in on the effort.  Why mess with something that will always be one step behind the mothership?

[AmigaMac]

It wouldn’t stop open source camp from having dotNET compatible ecosystem in open source OSes e.g. Linux.

Unfortunately that wont be the saving grace if incompatibilities arise via web services on the internet.  This will become issue as it already has been an issue with IE versus Netscape... get my drift?

SUN’s JAVA technology usually supports a single programming language i.e. JAVA. While MONO/dotNET supports multiple programming languages. It gives the application programmers the freedom to chose their favourite programming language without being tied down to just JAVA.

That's not the angle I'm hitting at and yeah I know about the multiple language support, which is a great concept on its own.  But with Microsoft wanting to leverage its monopoly with Windows and finally overtake the web with dotNET, this multiple language support might be an oversight as far as the other guys are concerned.  My thoughts on Java are really with the idea that Sun is willing to let others adopt that strategy into their own, and that's a better approach then trying to get dotGNU to mimic dotNET without error.

I'm not against the MONO project since that at least provides a safety net if Java doesn't succeed.