[SWLUG] Wow, seen this on Slashdot?

[Adam Rykala]

peter wrote:
>>
> 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.
>
> What's more, with mono, these applications can be cross-platform.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Sorry, I've started rambling.  If anyone decides they'd like to 
> discuss this I'll try to make myself clearer.
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter
>
>
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.

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 ;-)

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 ....


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