I've noticed that the .Net community appears to becoming more like Java everyday, and it's nothing to do with the language. I haven't built any commercial .Net applications in over a year, but I have been using Java a lot of the last 6 months or so. While I don't rate Java as a language above or below any others (they all have plus/minus points after all), the most powerful thing about Java , in my opinion, is the community.
The amount of tools around the language is amazing, with arguably the best product being the Spring Framework. What I've noticed in the .Net community is a movement they're calling Alt.Net, which is embracing broad terms like agile and open source. The way I see it is that, whatever you think of the .Net Framework, it'll never do everything that everyone wants, just like the Java runtime will never be. These are people who have ideas and are moving towards community based development and moving away from reliance on Mircosoft.
This moves the discussion on somewhat, with all the new languages available on top of Java and .Net, the next arguments won't be Java vs .Net, it'll be JRE (Java Runtime Environment) vs CLR/DLR (Common/Dynamic Language Runtime). Both have a Ruby implementation, JRuby on the JRE and IronRuby on the DLR among a whole bunch of others. The only thing holding .Net back is Linux deployment, but the Mono Project is trying to solve that problem, and as they come more mature, it'll be interesting to see what runtime people will be deploying on. Will the amount of runtimes get smaller while the choice of language on each grows? I'm not sure, but I'll be watching.
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
Monday, January 07, 2008
Battle for your TV - Round 2
*ding ding*
A very interesting development in the battle for your TV, BT and Microsoft jointly announce that BT will provide content through xBox Live, check out the press release. It's a funny old world, only last month I wrote up some thoughts on the battle for your TV, BT are playing an interesting game. There is a bit of a - however - moment though...
Here it comes...
However, a resident has to be a BT Broadband customer, and I assume a BT Total Broadband customer so that the resident is using a BT Home Hub (the snazzy Apple looking router) as it guarantees some quality of the line. I can only assume this means that the payment still appears on the bill you get from BT. There doesn't appear to be the 'roaming' option of being signed into any xBox using your Live account. So you couldn't be round a buddies house who uses broadband X rather then BT and opt in for a movie if they've got an xBox. They could however purchase movies from xBox Lives own pay per view service.
All in all, this only suggests that you don't need to get the BT Vision set top box (or you could use it in another room if you've got a long enough network cable) if you have the xBox. That would still leave you needing to buy a hard disc based DVRif you don't already have one.
It's interesting reading some of the comments about this. It's certainly an interesting move, still a bit restrictive but it could open up to thousands more people using the BT Vision 'platform' or what ever it is at the local exchange. It does feel fairly cosmetic though.
A very interesting development in the battle for your TV, BT and Microsoft jointly announce that BT will provide content through xBox Live, check out the press release. It's a funny old world, only last month I wrote up some thoughts on the battle for your TV, BT are playing an interesting game. There is a bit of a - however - moment though...
Here it comes...
However, a resident has to be a BT Broadband customer, and I assume a BT Total Broadband customer so that the resident is using a BT Home Hub (the snazzy Apple looking router) as it guarantees some quality of the line. I can only assume this means that the payment still appears on the bill you get from BT. There doesn't appear to be the 'roaming' option of being signed into any xBox using your Live account. So you couldn't be round a buddies house who uses broadband X rather then BT and opt in for a movie if they've got an xBox. They could however purchase movies from xBox Lives own pay per view service.
All in all, this only suggests that you don't need to get the BT Vision set top box (or you could use it in another room if you've got a long enough network cable) if you have the xBox. That would still leave you needing to buy a hard disc based DVRif you don't already have one.
It's interesting reading some of the comments about this. It's certainly an interesting move, still a bit restrictive but it could open up to thousands more people using the BT Vision 'platform' or what ever it is at the local exchange. It does feel fairly cosmetic though.
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