Re: The Disappear.Net Campaign

this story has been banging around for a while.
why be surprised if they drop a "name" (er....as/400 --- iSeries?)
btw-the April 1 story is that MS & IBM got together
and are combining OS/2 and .Net into ".NET/2".

with apologies to the OS/2 people
jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: The Disappear.Net Campaign


> I'd make two comments:
> 1 I always wonder about any news story dated April 1st.
> 2 Mary Jo Foley has a nose for a story but often times messes up in
writing
> about it.
>
>
>
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> Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
> Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Date: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 18:51:18
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: The Disappear.Net Campaign
>
> A report that Microsoft is throwing away the .Net brand.
>
> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,4248,989331,00.asp
>
> "After trying for three years to explain what ".Net" is, Microsoft seems
to
> be throwing in the towel."
>
> Given the history of Microsoft reinventing its development tools every few
> years, this shouldn't surprise me. But it did. Anyone know of similar
> reports?
>
> Nathan M. Andelin
> www.relational-data.com
>
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