Re: Re:choosing an OS and getting comfy with a new pc

The problem is that Sun pushes Java  as a multi platform language, but if MS
is writing OS specific APIs AND their development software has developers
use them, it is a problem.  In all honesty, no point using Java if you write
it to work only on Windows.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walden H. Leverich III" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:59 AM
Subject: RE: [PcTech] Re:choosing an OS and getting comfy with a new pc


> John,
>
>
> >...but if you can read court documents, it's all in there.
> >...let's put a bunch of hooks into the API's so that our software runs
> >faster and our competitors will have to use the slower hooks
>
> I have read the court documents (well, ok not all of them, but a good
> number) and it always amazes me that maby of the APIs that the non-MS
> vendors are complaining about I know about.
>
> Why do I know about them, well because I subscribe to MSDN, I read MSDN
Mag
> (MSJ) I look at the .h files for windows in the SDK, etc. MS does
actuially
> document a good number of their so-called "hidden" APIs and those that
they
> don't document have been well documented (for example all the kt* kernel
> APIs) by third parties. If other organizations are too lazy/stupid to
avail
> themselves of the information available about windows it's not microsoft's
> fault.
>
> Now I grant, MS may create new APIs that are better/faster/cheaper than
> earlier APIs and then use them in their applications, but there is nothing
> that stops a cometitor from using the API too. Sure, they may need to
> rewrite an entire section of code to use that API, but so did MS, it's
just
> that MS is willing/able to spend the time and money to do the rewrite and
> others aren't.
>