----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig White" To: 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 > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >