[Klug-general] Re: .NET

[Karl Lattimer]

Check elreg, i think you'll find that ebay dropped out of the .net 
passport scheme coz it was costing too much. mono/.net as a platform is 
still quite strong. Still tipping toward the microsoft end but as it has 
been accepted and the language specs are pretty complete i think 
microsoft would rather watch it roll under its own steam then just wipe 
the slate clean for vb.net and asp.net, and what about c# which _IS_ .net?

would you like to put billions of dollars into a project then ditch it. 
.net passport was an easy escape but .net platform is too widespread for 
them to stop supporting it

Karl,

George Prowse wrote:

>Actually it was ASP and VB
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>On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 21:06 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
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>>Thats .net passport not the .net platform.
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>>Karl,
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>>George Prowse wrote:
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>>>I've heard a rumour that Microsoft are almost ready to abandon .NET as
>>>it was getting far too expensive and companies just weren't going for
>>>it.
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>>>Plus the .NET integration for the next windows release just wasn't going
>>>to happen (just like the filesystem) or maybe added later as an upgrade.
>>>
>>>George
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