Re: Gartner: Everything in Vista is based on .Net, ... ;)

Let's see how many future products follow the same pattern. I suspect
there will be a lot of native applications that host the clr, similar
to MSSQL.

Hosting the CLR was a no-brainer. It doesn't not make sense to write an
RDBMS in .NET (thought there is one out there). It certainly doesn't make
sense to rewrite SQL Server in .NET. I've read many articles and weblog
posts about how the "fine-tune" SQL Server for performance and much of that
would not be possible with the CLR making choices for you that you have no
control over. However, there are some tasks that the hosted CLR does for
SQL Server to make certain tasks easier. There are few that agree, but I
very easily can see quite a few tasks easier performed inside SQL Server via
CLR integration rather than cursors and extended procs. In fact, hosted CLR
functions are nothing more than extended procs in essence.

In any case, there are lots of other products starting to support hosing the
CLR these days: Autodesk/Alias Maya, SQL Server, Oracle, etc. Without the
SQL server team having having done so, many outstanding changes/improvements
in the .NET 2.0 engine wouldn't have me made and it certainly wouldn't have
been too easy for us to host the CLR.

Anyway, eventualy .NET will catch on in the commercial arena. Its possible
that windows forms applications may never truly catch in. But there will be
plenty of server applications that use it (.NET is really good at server
type aplications/processes). Also, I think the fact that more and more
commercial applications are supporting CLR hosting is a good sign, also.
For people like me that prefer to write love sonnets to my PC in the key of
C# that's excellent. Sure is better than VBA or Perl.

Anyway, I think we've just seen the beginning. Of course Adobe Photoshop
will not be rewritten for .NET because it has 15 years of legacy to worry
about. But, Paint.NET, written in 100% C# easily holds its own against
Photoshop. Would it make any difference to you if he put a price tag to use
Paint.NET? I think that many inhouse shops will use .NET no different than
they used VB4/5/6. But there's a lot of legacy code that won't just be
ported for the sake of it. It'll take time, but it'll come definately.

And all those cameleons who didn't change colors will be left for prey.

Thanks,
Shawn


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