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* ActiveX, COM and COM+ are all still widely used. * Courier Tablet was never even a product. * DAO was useful for over a decade and you can still write progr
by WayneDB 14y ago
* ActiveX, COM and COM+ are all still widely used.
* Courier Tablet was never even a product.
* DAO was useful for over a decade and you can still write programs that use it today if you want to. Plenty of people do.
* DDE still works, matter of fact - perusing the list of hot questions on StackOverflow I saw a question about it today.
* Encarta was a developer product?
* Expression/Suite still works and is now available for free! Blend being rolled into Visual Studio? Great!
* Frontpage still works and you can even still buy it new, here you go - http://www.discountmountainsoftware.com/mifrpa.html http://www.discountmountainsoftware.com/mifrpa.html
* Linq to SQL still works, I just used it in a small project the other day.
* Visual FoxPro made a lot of money for a lot of people and programs built with it still run on Windows 8. I know a company that just paid $50K for a program written in Visual FoxPro. Yeah, I'm sure the original developers hate Microsoft.
* Many of the other products you mentioned were transformed into something else. So, what's the problem? Don't like change?
- teyc 14y agoOn the other hand this is the other side of the equation: 1. As platform evolves, a system built on a dead product is itself a dead end. 2. Developers skills are also dead ended. 3. All the supporting products (build systems, test systems) are also dead ended. We seem to reinvent new ways to do old things (forms, validation, saving to database), and this is very wasteful. Part of the reason why the web has grown up so much is that it has enough time to evolve. I just saw WebStorm and it was amazing. You know what? This is possible because the browser as a platform has enormous incentive to maintain backward compatibility.
- yuhong 14y agoDAO in fact is still developed today as part of ACE, and has been since Access 2007.