* Posts by Luke Howard

3 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Mar 2008

Novell grooms NetWare-Linux lovechild

Luke Howard

Microsoft's Operations Manager

I think you meant Microsoft Management Console?

'Fuzzy' royalties policies challenge Microsoft's open API pledge

Luke Howard
Gates Horns

Re: MAPI documentation

Having been in this "business" for while...

API documentation is quite different to protocol documentation, although it's easy to confuse the two (particularly as Windows is a big consumer of RPC).

Sometimes the APIs are a thin wrapper around the protocols. Other times, though, the protocols don't have any published APIs.

Luke Howard

Reinventing the wheel

Documentation doesn't prevent reinventing the wheel, it might actually encourage it (unless the sheer volume dissuades developers).