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Yes. I am sure that people do this .... But I will bet it wansn't a job you wanted. If you really wanted it you would have taken it windows or linux - no difference.

My recollection is that on the on old Crays this was more important than on other parallel architectures, and at the end of the day if your problem can run in parallel across several nodes on an appropriate architecture then the inherent differences in the code generation become small issues. C...

Ultra large installations of anything will not be immediately replaced. Small and Midsize organizations are where the replacement cycle starts, as well as in new divisions of existing entities. What we are seeing in these cases is a a large migration away from $soft - not 100% but not 10%...

It will be required soon .. there is a new regulation coming down the pike...... I am actually very surprized this has not been implemented by all banks/brokerages. It is realtively simple to implement in a cross platform way that will run across $soft, Linux, Unix, etc. Our companies...

I was one of the pioneers on UNICOS and Parallel C .... Things today are quite a bit different from even those advances.....

They are .. .and are still being used everyday - just without the punch cards - , although many of them have been converted to C, or in some cases object oriented languages which I prefer to use if I can.....

Again I refer people to your handle BigLoser ... an applicable handle ... opps .. forgot you were on my ignore list .... now you are ...

... Again you illustrate the difference between man and monkey. When confronted with the inability to formulate an valid argument the monkey resorts to agression ....... Go have a bannana .....

...Especially if you had to program it on punch cards ......

As an undergraduate I once asked the computer science chairman why his program required PL1 as at the time it was sparsely used. His response was that it was just another language and that any modern language was appropriate for the fisrt few introductory courses. Later I learned that the...

I never said it sucks I just said it was not cost effective ... which I suppose in the context of software expenditures is equivalent to "sucks" ...

Doesn't look like thats going to happen does it ? Any other comments ?

Your handle says it all ... Bigloser..... You never built a strong case for microsoft not dying and your comments are meaningless conjecture and can and should be ignored ...... Having failed to engage in any type of rational thought I will put you on my ignore list .....

Well ... you zealots are devoid of rational thought. ... And you sure have plenty of opinions but very little real evidence to support your claim. How much money are you spending on $soft infrastructure ? Have you ever actaully tested and determined if you could save money and reduce risk by...

Hmm ... I seem to remember programming in C language around 1980, and using a variety of Unix at that time ...... I think C language started as B language round about 1975 and the first versionof Unix started appearing at that time as well. .Net is just another vehicle designed first to...

I agree with you ... Even in the largest firms finding talent that can effectively design, implement, and communicate the correct solution is rare .... When you find a trusted resource its best to listen to them .....

Money doesn't necesarily follow the leaders ..... and poor management is all over the technology business .....

Didn't say they wern't growing, just that their monopolistic practices are losing their effectiveness and this will weigh in on their growth. With real competition they will be forced to lower their price points and licensing structures on just about everything as the competition heats up. They...

and neither did $soft, and they took away market from IBM and DEC. Some of the smartest people i know no longer work at Microsoft and that I think is a big problem for the company going forward.......

There is a catalyst: its called crtical mass and the Linux LAMP stack is IMHO just about there. I was there at the beginning my friend - working with $soft, dec, IBM etc ..... $soft took off largely through word of mouth and the cooperation of the developer community. They have lost the...