anti dot-net spew

[Nancy Sollars]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@azapple.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: anti dot-net spew


> On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 09:43, David A. Sinck wrote:
> >
> >
> > \_ SMTP quoth Joseph Gledhill on 3/4/2002 09:12 as having spake thusly:
> > \_
> > \_ I need some legitimate reasons not to go with .NET as a development
> > \_ platform.  Any comments would be appreciated.
> >
> > My guess is that you'll need to express this in terms a manager can
> > understand: the bottom line.
> >
> ----
> don't forget that Microsoft software products are now the environment in
> which you keep paying - annualized licensing - no longer a one time
> purchase - not transferable, etc.
>
> I have a customer that wanted me to fix his web site - developed by a
> 'lowball' quote using FrontPage and he went with it despite my protests.
> When the developer of the site flushed out, my customer needed a bunch
> of changes. Naturally, the site wasn't workable with Adobe GoLive - at
> least not without a lot of extra work - so my option was to purchase
> FrontPage or walk. He offered to buy FrontPage for me - I didn't want
> it. Once they get you - they get you. BTW - the site has never worked
> well for Netscape users or linux users and Macintosh IE users can't see
> all of the menus. In other words - be prepared to develop something that
> is hostable only on IIS, accessible only with IE 5.5+ on Windows and
> isn't likely to be portable to other configurations.
>

This truely makes the point that when M$ say its portable or compatable ..

" Only amongst M$ products "

Nige

> Craig
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