Re: Is ActiveX safe?

["Rick DuVall" <R_C_DuVall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Those of us who don't like to re-write our apps every time Micro$oft gets an
itch could be considered a community of sorts... Microsoft does some things
right, and I see a role for them in our organization for some time - just a
slightly diminishing role...

Regards,
Rick DuVall
Systems Manager
Dealer's Auto Auction of Okc, Inc.
rick@xxxxxxxxxx
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:47 PM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Is ActiveX safe?
>
> Is there a Great Divide looming?  Is Microsoft going to 
> create a huge, ponderous, but pervasive computing environment 
> where a majority of large firms and small use nothing but 
> Microsoft computing software?
>
> Is there a community of any size developing that, in one way 
> or another, does not have the Microsoft logo on their premises?
>
>
>
> Joe Pluta wrote:
> > > From: Bob Crothers
> > >
> > > I sure wouldn't call it "thriving" on the client side.  
> Perhaps server
> > > side it is going strong and I painted to broad a brush.
> >
> > Pretty much every platform has a thriving client-side Java 
> community.  You
> > might want to wander over to SourceForge to check that out. 
>  Just as an
> > example, let's take, say, the most popular IDE other than 
> (arguably) Visual
> > Studio.  It's Eclipse!
> >
> > Not sure what your definition of thriving is, but Java is 
> everywhere, from
> > mainframes to micro devices.
> >
> > Joe