[Info-vax] Microsoft joins Linux foundation / Google embraces .NET

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/18/2016 6:56 AM, IanD wrote:
> ok, so not strictly VMS news as such but I think it warrants a post
> because it signifies some trends VMS might do well to note
>
> Opensource is only going to grow in predominance and .NET is going to
> probably get quite a leg up with Google embracing it
>
> Everyone suddenly wants to talk and interact with everyone else and
> play nice

I don't think everybody want to play nice, but the the enemies are
changing over time.

Linux is not a major enemy for MS any longer.

Now a day MS is more worried about Amazon AWS and
the Google and Facebook web dominance.

> I mentioned .NET and VMS many posts ago as a way to perhaps lever VMS
> development in some way onto the visual studio development platform.
> .NET is not just about MS, it has indirect ties to mono which will
> probably get sucked back into .NET proper and Google will add their
> spin also now

A .NET Core port to VMS would certainly be interesting.

Not sure about how realistic it is. The business case may
be tricky.

> I'm left wondering how much love there is still out there for Java as
> a deployment language versus .NET going forward, long term. I know
> Oracle caused a lot of folk to look for ways to escape Java with
> their handling of the language

Practically no changes in that area.

Yes - there has been some concerns about Java EE version 8
becoming delayed.

But companies do not drop Java because they think the
release of Java EE 8 is slipping too much.

>                                so I'm wondering if Google are looking
> for a way to move beyond Java as well, long term, especially since MS
> open sourced .NET

Google certainly does not love Oracle after a few meetups
in court.

But replacing Java would be a huge task and cost a fortune.

Arne