Novell hedging their bets [LWN.net]

Novell hedging their bets

Posted Nov 22, 2005 0:34 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Novell hedging their bets by b7j0c
Parent article: de Icaza: Mono directions

except the market for office products is stagnant, unless you are telling me that MS Office is going to be rewritten in C#

Hmm. Please remind me when MS Office was rewritten in Visual Basic ? C# is filling role Visual Basic filled 10 years ago and Cobol filled before: in-house programs.

otherwise, where are all these new office apps? there is LESS diversity in this market than there was five years ago. its a REPLACEMENT PARTS market now and even microsoft can't get users to upgrade.

They are where they should be: on workplaces in different companies. You'll not see them on shelf. You'll never replace Windows on desktops without them. That's why we need Gambas and C#. And no, it's not REPLACEMENT PARTS market. Custom-made applications are just that: custom-made. Structure of companies are changin, requirements are changin and so programs need support. Forever. This is invisible part of software iceberg and this is where C# is mostly used today.

May be Microsoft had bigger plans for C#, may be not - but in reality "C# is Visual Basic today" and this is enough to support it.

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Novell hedging their bets

Posted Nov 22, 2005 5:36 UTC (Tue) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559) [Link]

>> This is invisible part of software iceberg

although apparently you can see it....????

Novell hedging their bets

Posted Nov 23, 2005 17:22 UTC (Wed) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

>> although apparently you can see it....????

Only if you are under the water :-)
It's my case: I work making custom in-house software (Delphi+Oracle). There will /never/ be a shrink-wrap software that fills the requirements of (most of) our systems, so do we have a team of 15 programmers making and maintaining our custom software.