Nice post,
- the framework is huge. This is more important than it seems. Less
components to buy, more people using a standarised set of
components. It has its attraction.
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:24:51 -0300, Marco van de Voort
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Tottaly agree, this has been microsoft's legacy to computing: standards.
On Thursday 16 March 2006 04:17, Bisma Jayadi wrote:
> IMO, .Net is just a bussiness buzz from M$ to attract their customers
> and prevent them from switching to Un*x systems. Speaking
> technically, I saw nothing new in the .Net technology. It's just a
> combination of Java (on the system architecture) and Delphi
> technology (on the system language), with extra resource requirements
> as the consequences. :p
Frankly, all that stuff is still early 80s technology at best. Back then
they just hadn't the computing power to actually do it.
Information technology hasn't changed too much since then. They just
invented a lot of new TLAs[0]. The only question is who has the better
sales people hired.
While I'm not a .NET lover (I wrote the FPC section on .NET), but while
we all know that .NET is at best M$'s copy of Java, that doesn't mean
that
.NET is not a danger:
- it is reasonably well implemented and integrated.
- the framework is huge. This is more important than it seems. Less
components to buy, more people using a standarised set of
components. It has its attraction.
- Managers still believe in managed languages, and might for some time to
come
- training and sales
- About each and other shrinkwrap development tools vendor is dead or
nearly
dead. The few left are into .NET and M$ can easily keep
them at arms length technically forever
- Microsoft can also keep them at arms length on price forever
(with VS being coveniently priced
at 3/4 of the corresponding but poorer Delphi version) forever
- Microsoft hardly has to do sales anyway. As OS and Office
vendor
it already has a foot in the door. Strategic developers and
educational institutions are given licenses often near free
- Also the massive MS training operations automatically generate
MS developer tools sales.
IMHO it is less .NET itself, but the alarming conversion rates of
businesses
to MS tools (and that is often not a technical choice).
(Oh, and the fact that memory prices have sunk much lately also doesn't
propel my enthusiasm for .NET)
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