I agree with you. I'm not defending Microsoft.

But I would like to defend SOA.  It is my understanding that if you abstract the interface enough then it shouldn't matter at all whether it is a Java webservice running in a servlet container or something written in .NET.  

On the other hand, now that I think about it, it is not beyond Microsoft to sabotage the standard.  I remember trying the Google web service api and it worked beautifully from Perl.  But when I tried the example with VB it failed with some strange type mismatch error.  

So nevermind. You're absolutely correct.  (-:



-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@MIT.EDU [mailto:piclist-bounces@MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Padu
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 8:16 PM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [OT] is VB.Net right for me?

Well, not only that. .NET is a platform abstraction framework. 
"Theoretically", someone could implement the framework for other platforms. 
Actually, someone already implemented it for linux 
(http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page) so applications you develop for .net 
can run in any platform that implements the framework (we've heard that 
before, don't we?). Yes, .net is similar to a java vm.
While it does network aware projects very well, it is also capable of other 
types of projects as well.

Cheers

Padu


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