--- Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner@gmail.com> wrote:

> > jjzeidner@gmail.com writes:
> > >  Don't touch ASP.NET... its pure evil.
> >
> > Thank you for that wonderfully useful comment.
> 
>   No problem.
> 

Here's an opinion from a a guy who uses PHP n a normal
basis. It's title "ASP.NET Sucks", but the title it a
little baiting.

http://blogs.katapultmedia.com/jb2/2006/08/aspnet_sucks.html


> >
> > Our business frequently involves working with
> existing sites' codebases, and
> > that means what languages they've decided to
> adopt.  If we can have a test
> > environment which doesn't involve requiring access
> to or meddling with their live
> > server, everyone's happy.
> 

Ok, everyone porbably knows this. Mono doesn't not
support all the windows .net api (namespaces)

>   Microsoft makes sure that it is far too costly to
> straddle that
> technological rift.  Making sure there is little or
> no skills or code
> overlap is one way of making sure that people don't
> think twice about
> using their platform.  Mono may work well right now,
> and broad
> compliance will be maintained until:
> 
>   1) Microsoft gains a majority share in this market
> at which point
> they will then try to incentivize the adoption of
> their other
> technologies by offering selective compatibility.
>   2) Microsoft deems Mono+ASP.NET to be
> unprofitable.
> 

With all respect, MONO is not an MS project. It is
open source and sponsored by Novell (who I don't think
of as MS fans.)

I'm not offended, but I don't agree that .Net requries
no skill.

[snip]

-j






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