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I see where you're coming from Adam; and agree with most of most of
what you say. However, I do have to say also that MS have come up with
a really impressive development environment in .NET. Couple that with
Visual Studio and you have a combination capable of creating secure,
n-Tier, distributed applications with a facility that I haven't yet
found with any Open Source product.
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What's more, with mono, these applications can be cross-platform.
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The only competition that I'm aware of is Java (J2EE) - and at least
half the F/OSS community appear to have taken an oath never to allow
anything connected with Java ever to darken their HDD segments.
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If anyone knows of any competing environments, I'd be very happy to
hear about it - especially since I'm likely to be writing a paper on
the subject next autumn.
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Sorry, I've started rambling. If anyone decides they'd like to discuss
this I'll try to make myself clearer.
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Cheers
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Peter
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My main argument is that MS really have no business commenting on
security, and by throwing that comment in with security blows apart any
credibility they have for development whatsoever.<br>
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I don't bother with graphical development, and apart from the Fortran
stuff I do ... the last programming I did was almost a decade ago.
Hence why I didn't say too much. That said tho, I don't own a Windows
box at all here and really have no incentive too, so perhaps that
coulors my feelings ;-)<br>
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Hence I can't argue with "Couple that with Visual Studio and you have a
combination capable of creating secure, n-Tier, distributed
applications with a facility that I haven't yet found with any Open
Source product." apart from the fact that you're running them on an
intrinsically insecure platform ....<br>
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