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by Gregory Carter on Tuesday 16/Oct/2001, @10:40

If KDE can get 3.0 out the door before Xmas, that will be quite an accomplishment. I think that would also leave GNOME way behind in the dust.

Unfortunately, GNOME suffers from the scatter brain approach of software development. (GNOME developers are doing .Net emulation which, in my opinion is a complete rewrite of what we already have with Java Servlets/Applets/XML/XSLT and RMI/Corba.

All of which you can build apps with today and they run anywhere and everywhere.

You will gain NO technology advantage what-so-ever by switching to .Net. You will however, increase your costs DRAMATICALLY, simply do to the fact you can't implement any enterprise wide initiative unless you have Microsoft's approval via your check book. Absolutely rediculous.

I therefore do not see interoperability at stake here between Linux and Windows, as to require .Net support.

If you are a company planning on supporting .Net, watch out. Microsoft has some pretty nasty surprises planned for you once you buy all thier software!

The fact is, Java runs just fine on Windows and very well, in fact.

I am very concerned though, because it looks as though I won't have equal choices on my desktop from now on. KDE will be the default while GNOME is a second hand desktop at best.

-gc

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Re: Choice
by poorboy on Thursday 18/Oct/2001, @08:05

um, don't you mean XML-RPC? The open standard?

.Net is just MS's "brand" or implementation of it.

btw: Have a look for kxmlrpcd on developer.kde.org.

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Re: Choice
by Carg on Saturday 20/Oct/2001, @09:33

Leaving GNOME to dust is not KDE´s goal. KDE´s goal is to make the best desktop environment available, which has nothing to do with GNOME. If people use GNOME that´s OK, because it´s easier to go to KDE from GNOME than from Windows, for example.

KDE 3.0 will ship in February, because that´s when it will be ready. It will be released when it´s ready, not when it´s good according to the marketing people.

Also, GNOME is not adopting .NET. Ximian is developing Mono, indeed, but Mono is still not ready to be used to write applications. When it´s ready, the GNOME developers will decide if it will become a part of the platform or not. But chances are it won´t, if you read the mailing lists for the GNOME development. It won´t be a part of the platform just like Ximian´s GAL and GTKHTML libraries aren´t.

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