Posted 2:13 PM

OS war over, OS dead

According to the Register, Sun's Scott McNealy is at it again. This time, he's not only declared the "OS war" (between Windows and Solaris) over - with Sun victorious, of course - but he's declared that operating systems, themselves, are doomed. Seems that, according to Scott, "web services" (especially those based on Java) will become all the rage as people move to non-PC internet-connected devices accessing Sun servers running web engines. Just two things I'd like to point out:

1) those web services run on web servers powered by operating systems (and, for that matter, so do the clients); and

2) .NET can already run rings around Java.

Proving, yet again, that Sun may know what developers want, but Microsoft knows what the end-users want.