Fear and MS Loathing in Las Vegas
July 21, 2008It’s pretty easy to really want Microsoft dead sometimes, and to read something like this and be angry automatically. But wanna know something? Sql Express would probably blow MySQL out of the water for scalable database solutions and a version of C# for coding in would not be bad either. If Microsoft has ever made any good products, their names are SQL Server and C#, IMO. While I’ve evicted Windows and MS products in general from my house, I used to code asp.net apps in C# and using SQL Server as the db. Guess what? They scale pretty damn well.
Oh, umm. None of this has anything to do with Las Vegas. I just needed a title.
Unfortunately I have only the vaguest idea of what you
Lunette | July 22, 2008Unfortunately I have only the vaguest idea of what you are talking about.
It's really just about platform. If OpenSim is going
Radar | July 22, 2008It’s really just about platform. If OpenSim is going to become synonymous with interoperability with second life, it’s important that it’s built right, and the right players get involved. It’s no mystery that sometimes Microsoft likes to come in and bend things to their will, whether for better or worse. And sometimes they do make things better. But their track record with open source platforms is spotty.
The real issue is that you don’t want any one vendor controlling a key component of your open source virtual world platform, nor do you want any one vendor pushing something into that standard that really borks it in the process.