Posted by German Arduino on Mar 16, 2005; 11:42am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Is-dolphin-dying-tp3373403p3373437.html

Only two little comments:

Christopher J. Demers wrote:
>
> .Net is interesting.  It might be cool if Dolphin supported that.  However
> there would be disadvantages also.  My understanding is that a fairly large
> support package is required for .Net applications.  

Agree.
By example a +20MB runtime. How to say a customer: "ok, to use my app of
2MB you need to download by your dial-up connection more than 20MB of
stuffs."

>
> Market trends can be tricky.  Sometimes they represent real innovation, and
> sometimes they just represent marketing innovation.  I tend to take a
> cautious view of market trends.  For a while Java was the big deal, now .Net
> is the big deal.  I was happy with Dolphin while Java was the big deal and I
> am still happy while .Net is the bid deal.
>

FULL AGREE, to a wide market niche (small and medium companies and
applications) I think that is really better to stay as far as is
possible of the "marketing innovations" that usually only want the $ of
customers giving in exchange almost nothing.

Cheers.
gsa.