Why would this mean anything at all? I cannot see or think of a single framework in the C++ or prior VB areas, or any other competitor in that very general category. In other words, who or what came second? The fragmentation and overall paucity of frameworks on the C++, VB, and java-side makes this the non-news event of the day.

The winner last year in this category was SoftWIRE, "an add-in for Visual Basic, uses a visual interface to show logic, allowing users to actually create software without writing code. The interesting part is how SoftWIRE manages to accomplish this". This wins the framework of the year in 2001.

Moreover SDMag is no more java-oriented than any other general computing publication like, for example, Dr Dobbs. They certainly don't have any past Java bias that I can see...

At the risk of being unkind to Microsoft and SD Magazine, this may be no more than rewarding a loyal and vital advertiser in an otherwise barren category.

What's more telling is that VS.NET finishes fourth in the "Languages and Development Environments" category behind IntelliJ IDEA, Borland Delphi 6/Kylix 2, and Borland JBuilder.


**--** Steve

>Hi All,
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>Did you see that the .Net framework won the Jolt award. I think the category was best Framework, but not sure. A quote from the email article:
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>While pieces of the Common Language Runtime and other components are arguably derivative of the virtual machine concepts made popular by Java, Microsoft was thinking big when it tied all these pieces together in a multi-language fashion. Obviously, to what degree the world embraces .NET remains to be seen, but it would be shortsighted to ignore the scale of this four-year effort.
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>This is huge, considering Jolt awards have typically gone to Java products for many years. So, .Net is getting attention even from that side of the fence.
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>BOb