Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
I find this report very hard to believe and the results must be seriously skewed somehow, but IDC have a report called Server Watch, which apparently shows Windows server boxes outselling Unix boxes in 2005 (by $17.7bn to $17.5bn). Not unexpectedly, in terms of web server software market share Apache still dominates the market running …
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It seems amazing to me that Windows 95 was launched 10 years ago (on August 24th). I can remember going to PC World store and looking at the box on the shelf and playing around with it on a demo machine. It was worlds apart from Windows 3.1, but since at that time I was …
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Richard Grimes, author of Developing Applications with Visual Studio .NET (Addison-Wesley, 2002), and regular .NET columnist in Dr Dobbs software development magazine, has recently decided to call it quits on his .NET column in the magazine, as he is disallusioned with the goals for .NET and it’s future. In his parting article in his column …
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