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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/14/07 01:03
Sanders Kaufman wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
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>> Actually, didn't DCOM come out in W4W? Seems to me it did.
>
> No, it began with Win95 - in an "extras" folder, or somesuch.
> Win95 was the "MS doesn't get networking" release of Win32.
> Prior to that, it was just something they were tinkering with.
> ... acutally, that's what it was afterwards, too, wasn't it? :)
>
> I recently saw a guest lecture series on the Paul Allen network (U-Dub)
> in which they interview Microsofties. It was kinda funny watching this
> old guy talk about the headaches he had as a mucky-muck - trying to
> pretend that the engineering form WFC/COM/Com+/DCOM and several others
> was really in synch with the marketing... the poor guy didn't even
> believe it himself.
>
> But that's what ya gotta do when your a manager of cubicle rats.
>
>
>> So right now they're locked into the more expensive hosting (which
>> also runs more slowly and has more problems) because the cost of
>> conversion would be several years worth of the price difference.
>
> Hey, that's like the War Against Iraq. The original benefits didn't pan
> out, but the cost of upgrading to peacetime is considered too expensive.
The difference is - if we weren't fighting terrorists in Iraq, we'd be
fighting them here.
Remember - they attacked us, not vice versa. And they want to do it
again. The only thing keeping them from doing it is we're taking their
havens away from them.
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