Re: SAPDB not competitive due to neglect of Win32 drivers

> Bzzt.  ODBC was what Microsoft decided to rename SQL-CLI to when they
> republished the standard as if it were their own.

Well, that's good to know.

> And the notion that .NET was "invented" by Microsoft strikes me as
> indicating a whole lot more "inventiveness" than they are
> traditionally noted for.  I haven't yet perceived anything about .NET
> that is sufficiently novel such that the term "invented" would seem
> applicable.
> 
> It's pretty much another run-of-the-mill P-Code reimplementation,
> looking more like a rehash of J2EE than anything else.  

Well, that why put invented into "", because .NET offers nearly nothing 
that other languages don't have yet.

> Oh, it has APIs for all sorts of Windows-only services.  _Sure_,
> that's inventive...

Well, that only a proof, that Microsoft's .NET is not designed to be 
platform independant. Of course it is designed to run on Windows only, 
would it be a Microsoft product otherwise?

That why i still wait for Mono to offer a usable SDK.

>>>>Well, you're using ODBC, and i guess Stephen can't use ODBC any more
>>>>since it is poorly supported by .NET ...
>>>
>>>Then maybe he shouldn't use .NET?
>>
>>What an arrogant position.
> 
> It hardly seems an arrogant position to suggest that if .NET is
> deficient in vital ways, it may make a poor choice as an application
> platform.

Well, .NET itself is not deficient. Is is still the deficient support 
for SAPDB we're talking about?