On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Bill McCormick wrote:
> Can somebody tell me what all the .NET fuss is about?
Like the Java fuss, the .NET fuss is paid-for fuss. Microsoft funds
advertising, articles, development and general hooplah which results
in everyone "knowing" that .NET is all that and a whole lot more.
> I don't really know much about it except that there sure seems to be a big
> call for it. From what little I do know, It seems to come down to some IT
> Directors personal preferance to a WIN ISS stack over a LAMP stack. Is there
> something better about that world over ours? Of course, *ours* being
> Linux-Apache-MySQL-Perl with heavy use of CGI::Application et.al.
That's certainly part of it. From a technology angle The Common
Language Runtime (CLR) is obviously cool. All the .NET languages (C#,
C++, VB) compile to a single portable object format and can
interoperate much more closely than before. On top of that, C# seems
like an improvement over C++. It has a lot of the stuff that makes
Java good and some new ideas too, like mixing managed and unmanaged
code.
That said, I won't be jumping ship any time soon. LAMP is still the
fastest development environment for web-apps around, in my opinion.
-sam
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