Re: Vista Migration Scaring Off IT Pros
the wharf rat wrote:
> In article <uSWYrVCMIHA.2140@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>,
> Mr. Arnold <MR. Arnold@Arnold.com> wrote:
>> What reason is there not to use .Net?
>
> I might not want to get tied to a proprietary platform that
> removes any possibility of ever having any leverage with the vendor.
> I might not want to run Windows Server because it doesn't scale well
> horizontally (in fact, .net has issues with geographical scaling
> because it's sensitive to network latency on distributed objects).
> I might not be running on Intel hardware; .net doesn't run on Z/os.
> Or Solaris.
>
> There's lots of reasons why it might not be the best choice.
>
>
>> And .Net is a standard sanctioned by
>
> Well, about 10% of it is. The interconnect parts. That had to be
> standardized to allow other vendor's web services to connect. Want to
> show me the international standard for the JIT compiler? 
>
>
>> running on cellular phones and even watches. And .Net is more than just
>> about the WEB solutions. That are many a .Net solutions in use or are being
>> developed that have nothing to do with the WEB.
>>
> Guy, even MS claims that .net is a web services platform:
>
> ".NET is the Microsoft Web services strategy to connect information, people,
> systems, and devices through software. Integrated across the Microsoft
> platform," http://www.microsoft.com/net/basics.mspx
>
> You're confusing web services with the Web you browse with IE.
>
>> MS doesn't even own .Net.
>>
>
> Nonsense.
>
>> Now, you have become of no interest to me from this point forward.
>
> Well, ****, now yo've gone and plumb ruined my day. WhatEVER will
> I do...
>
The critter is full of it, you may as well forget logical argument
There are now versions of .NET from 1 to 3.5 IIRC, so which to write for
to stay compatible? I guess it shouldn't matter but seems like it does
I don't actually think there's much to argue about with development
systems, but what I do see is that the market will decide and being tied
to a development system that keeps incurring costs is less profitable
than finding something that doesn't. It is not so much the development
environment that's "Best" as the environment you are comfortable dealing
with, the customer doesn't care as long as his system works.
At first sight VS2007 looks very nice and it does make development for
Windows easier because much is included that you might have to go
searching for otherwise, but this comes back to whether Windows will
always remain the big moneymaker, and that is what the market in general
will use to decide.
By choice I no longer do coding for a living, not for quite a while as
it happens, but this is not a coding issue it is one of vested interests
as I said earlier - Arnold's problem is that he is not versatile enough
to even contemplate something else.