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Subject: Great article on IBM's software future
From: jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 23:25:55 -0400
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Hey

Some good insight to what the  leader of the Senior VP  thinks.  He talks
about Eclipse,  C# Java,  J2EE,  and EVEN   SOM remember that?
He'll  mention why they dropped it.  Talks about MS's  trouble with   VB
and C++  and the why of .NET
which he says
"So they've created this language-neutral layer, which is a pretty
complicated piece of computer science."

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/04/29/020429hnmills.xml

<SNIP>
AS THE OVERSEER of IBM's $12 billion software business, a business that
spans every major software market from mainframes to PCs, Senior Vice
President and Group Executive Steve Mills .......
<SNIP>

As an example.

<Snip>

InfoWorld: Does IBM have any plans to support C#?

Mills: I do not have any plans at the present time to support C#, for the
simple reason that I don't need one more programming language if I can help
it. I mean we're collectors of programming languages here, and so one more
programming language just makes my head hurt.

<SNIP>



John Carr

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