- Microsoft embraces universities, internet.com
- Posted by Daeron on November 7th, 2003
Microsoft Goes Back to School for Visual Studio
Michael Singer Nov 07 2003
Microsoft this week awarded grants to five universities to enhance the
Assignment Manager component of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic.
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The universities selected include the Federal University of Pernambuco
(Brazil), Monash University (Australia), Universidade Estadual Paulista
Julio de Mesquita Filho (Brazil), University of Hull (United Kingdom)
and Yale University (United States).
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"We believe C# and Visual Studio .NET have the potential to become
excellent language environments for introductory programming courses,"
said Zhong Shao, professor of computer science at Yale University ...
http://siliconvalley.internet.com/ne...le.php/3106161
'awarded grants' : In other words Microsoft pays universities *NOT* to
work on Open Source. Since when was the curriculum of a major
educational establishment decided by a software vendor ?
- Posted by Tom Shelton on November 7th, 2003
In article <boh45c$1e8hpi$1@ID-168140.news.uni-berlin.de>, Daeron wrote:
It's pretty common really. Where I went to school, we had a IBM lab -
built and paid for by IBM. We had a Sun Lab - built and Paid for by
Sun, funny to - it was shortly there after that they switched all the
intro programming classes to Java, and revised the 4 year curriculum so
that you would be able to do the entire thing in Java (well nearly, you
still had to do the systems programming class in C, since we were mostly
using HP-UX).
Tom Shelton
- Posted by Fredrick Kenniston on November 7th, 2003
Daeron wrote:
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Every time I see "Microsoft embraces...", an image always comes to my
mind of a "godfather" (head of "the mob") embracing someone and giving
them the "kiss of death".
On the other hand, what's to stop IBM, Novell and SUSE or even Red Hat
from helping to finance "open source" labs in computer science departments
at various colleges/universities?
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