Comment 1182 for bug 1

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Faldegast (faldegast) wrote : RE: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

> Mark,
> You really need to make a task force for building a Visual Studio for Ubuntu.
> THEN, this bug will be fixed . Just take a look at what Microsoft did.

In general i think that we really need task forces in plural.
There are a lot of overlapping projects. One example is that KDE and Gnome should merge, at least when it comes to key technologies.

1. We need a standardized method for embedding objects. Like Java Beans and OLE/ActiveX in Windows. I mean how do you view a office document in a VS application, or create a PDF report? You find an ActiveX that can do it. KDE has KParts and Gnome has something similar, but we really need a standard for this. Or in other words we need a standard for Custom Controls. In OLE/ActiveX an object can be inproc (dynamically or statically linked) or out of proc (external server process that starts on demand). Also the app is totally oblivious to w

2. We need a visual editor that can create new Custom Controls, or design containers like forms/windows.

The Lazarus FreePascal IDE is an interesting project.

Another thing that we need is a good native database library. We have JDBC and ADO.NET. Perhaps one of them could be ported to C/C++? We also have PHP Data Objects that is quite nice and probably implemented in C, perhaps the C code could be used to make a "C Data Objects"?

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