[Klug-general] Re: .NET

[George Prowse]

Thats the thing though Karl, I've heard that its not as widespread as
people think. Personally I only know one person that uses c# and
everyone i know who uses ASP hates ASP.net with a passion.

George


On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 21:42 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 21:06 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Thats .net passport not the .net platform.
> >>
> >>Karl,
> >>
> >>George Prowse wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>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.
> >>>
> >>>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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