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Revenge of the Applets

Vivek Nair has a great point. Web 2.0 requires something like Applets. Ozzie's point about multi processor multi core is one I have been trying to make for almost 10 months now. There is a fundamental difference in the style of coding for Web 2.0 in comparison to the style of coding characterized by Microsoft's .Net. It is more than procedural vs object. It involves multi threading and efficient use of resources.

A decade ago, we in the IT industry who were involved in training new programmers, recognized this.

It was an obvious conclusion owing to developments in the main frame world which had already proven multi-processor multi core. Hence the schools that were not successfully influence-peddled by Microsoft thugs (I have chosen my words carefully here - replace the word thug with donator or marketer or lawyer if you like), replaced C and Basic with Java as the first language a computer major would learn.

Today the best definition of Web 2.0 is Google. But a more extensive definition would involve CPU utilization. Languages like Java and Fortran, which are easially threaded, create opportunities to utilize CPUs more productively. You should not need to power a second CPU until the first is fully utilized. Neither should a device that will never fully utilize a fast CPU, be given one and be so forced to overly consume power.

What Ozzie is doing - and I now think him behind the Novell deal - is preparing Microsoft Enterprise Agreement shops for this new style of computing.

I suspect that Microsoft Enterprise Agreement shops will be getting Novell technology like SUSE Linux, Zenworks, Novell Directory Services and especially Mono.

Mono will allow the Visual-Basic .Net projects that are almost completed to be converted into a form that can take advantage of multi-processor muliti-core. In otherwords a bridge to Web 2.0 has been created. Existing Linux applications will also be converted to Mono so that they can run on Microsoft Windows. Eventually the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement shops will retrain so they are developing with industry standard tools, like Eclipes in Java and they will use Novell almost-cloning Zenworks and the other tools in doing that.

Its the same pattern the IBM used with the OS/2 Best Team in converting that group to Java. I think Ozzie was at IBM during that time. It saved Lotus Notes.

Frank L. Mighetto CCP

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