Re: How do we get there from here?

• From: Jon Dempsey <jon.dempsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:07:23 +0100

Jon Dempsey wrote:

I'm really going to upset people by suggesting using wall-to-wall
Microsoft.NET

That doesn't upset me.  I think that is another way to go.  It has
pluses and minuses like all other approaches do.  We have discussed it
here before.  Tony G and others whom I admire have opted to go that
route.  One big advantage is that Microsoft packages their developer
tools and provides soup to nuts coverage.  That gives it the early
Macintosh single-vendor experience to some extent.

The biggest downside, as I've mentioned before, is being tied to
Microsoft both from a business partner standpoint (they are notorious
for ravaging their installed base) and from a technology standpoint.

I regularly use VB.net and vbscript where I need to use Outlook inboxes.

I have also tinkered with C# and J# but not in a live app. With the
additional links I can get with PDP plus the additional features to be
included in Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft will corner the market as they
have elsewhere and it would be blind stupidity not to look at the market
leader.

I'm keeping my eye on google.  I think the browser really is becoming
the next "operating system" on which applications will run instead of
.NET or the JVM.  You can use .NET in the middle or back tier, but
requiring it on the client can only be done for strictly-internal
company apps.  Both .NET and the JVM provide a better run-time
environment from many perspectives, but the browser is ubiquitous and
neither the jvm nor .NET comes close to that.

Reasonable responses please to ...................................!!!

Sorry, you put this last -- was my response reasonable?  --dawn

Thanks Dawn, or course it was.

Jon
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