Re: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread Joel Rees
I hate to rain on this parade, but, > I'm a pretty good PHP programmer, and things > I could knock out in a couple of hours seem to be WAY more difficult to > do in .Net. This is the pith of the question. If you knew what you're doing, anything from Microsoft takes longer to do than doing it t

Re: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread John Manko
"You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new." - David Lee Nka wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:35:55 -0500, you wrote: I know this is a little off topic but I really need some help with this. The company I work for just got bought out by a larger company. The larger com

Re: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread Nka
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:35:55 -0500, you wrote: >I know this is a little off topic but I really need some help with this. > >The company I work for just got bought out by a larger company. The larger company >uses .NET from Micro$oft. I of course use all open source stuff for our web sites and

RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread Wendell Brown
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:04:02 -0400, Dan Joseph wrote: >Yeah, the framework does. The free editor is for web apps, the Visual >Studio is for normal apps. FYI, I just had Visual Studio ordered for me - a single license for it with a 1 year subscription to MSDN was over $2800! I don't know yet wha

Re: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread John W. Holmes
Jay Paulson wrote: The company I work for just got bought out by a larger company. The larger company uses .NET from Micro$oft. I of course use all open source stuff for our web sites and now the new company wants to come in and pretty much blow away everything I have done and use their .NET setup

RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread Dan Joseph
IL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET > > > Dan Joseph <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:55 AM said: > > > Visual Studio > > gives you added languages like C#, J# and C++. > > I thought the basic framework had b

RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I've basically got a month to do research and get my guns loaded for what I'm sure will be a heated debate about the Open Source Solution vs the Micro$oft .NET solution. So what I am looking for is personal and professional opinions about both solutions (specifically PHP etc), any and all l

RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread Chris W. Parker
Dan Joseph on Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:55 AM said: > Visual Studio > gives you added languages like C#, J# and C++. I thought the basic framework had both VB.NET and C# included? Chris. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: h

RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread Dan Joseph
. Windows Server runs fine on the same types of hardware that Linux does. -Dan Joseph > -Original Message- > From: Chris W. Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:50 PM > To: Jay Paulson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$o

RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread Chris W. Parker
Jay Paulson on Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:36 AM said: > Are > their any links to show the cost benifits of using Open Source vs > Micro$oft .NET? (I know Open Source is free but I have no clue where > to find how much .NET is). .NET is free as well. It's just a fram

RE: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

2003-07-31 Thread Dan Joseph
Hi Jay, www.asp.net is a good site for learning about the ASP side of .NET, its the web application side. Basically Visual Basic for the web. .NET is also C++, C#, J#, and VB .NET. I personally like developing in Visual Studio .NET, but I donno about for web applications. I use to do A