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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: Windows 2000
From:       Bavo De Ridder <bavo () ace ! ulyssis ! student ! kuleuven ! ac ! be>
Date:       1998-12-05 20:13:21
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As I said: Linux/KDE/X already can decouple business-logic from GUI. Take a
look at CORBA and remote X display.


BDR

On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Lars Hellsten wrote:
>On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Bavo De Ridder wrote:
>
>> This month I read something very useful in the editorial. Microsoft will use MS
>> DNA in its upcoming WinNT release. MS DNA stands for "Microsoft Distributed
>> interNet Application. The technology focuses on breaking regular applications
>> into a 3-tier environment: the presentation, the business logic and the data
>> layer. It's purpose is to break the tight connection between GUI, business
>> logic and data management. So you should be able to write an application once,
>
>I think you are worrying about nothing.  3-tier application architecture is
>nothing new, especially in enterprise environments.  It seems to me this is
>just a marketing thing.  Microsoft is, as usual, just trying to introduce
>new buzz words that appeal to the pointy-haired boss types.  The only
>significant implication I see here that relates to KDE is that if the
>Windows GUI is developed using this design, it would be network
>transparent.  Big deal - we're already there.
>
>> and let several GUI use the same business logic. It is like having a GUI using
>> KDE, a GUI using DHTML, ... wich are all using the same business logic, data
>> layers, ...
>
>This may be a somewhat interesting idea, but in practice, will this really
>be used?  Is there really any advantage in having multiple graphical
>interfaces to a program?  I don't see it as a big deal.  And even so, if
>you want this in KDE, just turn the "business logic" of the programs into a
>KOM "Komponent" or whatever.  So it can already be done.
>
>> say that when Windows 2000 is released and the features get known, I think
>> Linux/KDE/... will have a hard time not loosing ground!
>
>Actually, I would say Linux and KDE are already way ahead.  Microsoft is
>still struggling to get the fundamentals right, and no matter how much
>complexity they throw into Windows, it will never mask the fact that the
>foundation sucks.  
>
>Methinks it's all hype.
>
>--
>//  Lars Hellsten <lhellsten(AT)uwaterloo.ca>  "Through nature's inflexible
>//  University of Waterloo 2A Math/CS          grace, I'm Learning To Live"  
>
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