Response Chain
October's Letters from Readers
A sampling of letters from the developer community.
Not All About Microsoft
I'd like to compliment you on your Sept. 1, 2008, issue. I've been receiving this magazine for a while now and not finding time to actually read it. The article about IBM pushing the Windowless desktop, "
IBM Looks to Break Windows
," caught my eye and I read that. Then I read the article on the following page about an open source drop-in replacement for SharePoint, "
Alfresco Gets SharePoint Savvy
" and the "
Open Source Partner
" Q&A [with DotNetNuke's Shaun Walker].
The reason I haven't read your magazine in the past is because, quite frankly, Microsoft is what was and not what will be-and my impression was that
RDN
was a marketing shill for Microsoft.
Offering intelligent, unbiased information about open source as it applies to Windows and migrating away from Windows makes your magazine a valuable read for me. I'll now read all of the back issues I still have, and will read all of the future issues you send me.
Hal Hanson
President, Hal-Com Inc.
Valley View, Ohio
The Google-Microsoft Developer Gap
Google has a long way to go to even come close to Microsoft's developer commitment. The developers don't care what you run their apps in or on-they just care that you run them. Internet Explorer 8 isn't perfect, but it does fit me better than Opera, Firefox 3 or anything else out there. This is because Opera makes you conform to its ideals of how a browser should act and Firefox has one of the clunkiest UIs that ever escaped a test lab. Give me a break.
Bill Faulkner
Owner, Faulkner Computer Services
El Centro, Calif.