Language of computer hobbyists hits the big time

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I do not witness any of what you are talking about, I'm afraid: Quote:
"ASP.NET is the new way of buiding web apps and has been
slowly taking over much of the business world'

Not where I am, it isn't. It's certainly a fairly new way of building
web apps, that borrows very heavily from existing models, but
Wrox Press actually went bankrupt waiting for ASP.NET to hit the
big time.

Where I am, ASP.NET has seen a very modest take up, largely
with governmental clients who have subsidised volume-
purchasing agreements with Microsoft to reduce the high costs
of lisensing. Even then, they tend to hire PHP programmers and
put them on a training course because (as one NHS official told
me) people with the official Microsoft-accedited .NET
qualifications were, in his words, "p*ss poor", and "people with
scripting experience usually had a better grasp of what was
actually going on with key .NET concepts" - like "postback", for
instance (God, how many times have I seen *that* one misused!).

I'm genuinely glad that, as a .NET supporter, you are managing
to find work. I am pro, my fellow software developers and do not
begrudge you your livelihood in the least, but I would not be
able to find the same kind of employment as a .NET developer,
here. In any case, having a Microsoft advertising campaign
based on the fact that Microsoft technologies are STILL cheaper
than open source, simply because you can pay your developers
and system administrators less, is not a strong inducement for
me to recommend .NET as a solution to any of my clients;
especially when I tell them we'll be ripping out the slackware
servers and replacing them with Windows 2003 "Advanced"
server: "That'll be $4000 for the server, and the database
manager is $5000, per processor, let's see... that's two
processsors, so... . $14,000 - don't worry, just dock it from my
pay. It'll be slightly slower than the Slackware servers and will
need rebooting everytime the software gets updated, but I'll
work double shifts to make up for it."

Sound like, although "no oe ever got the sack for buying
Microsoft", they also "never got to see much home life
afterwards".

Hey, don't take me too seriously: I'm not anti Microsoft
(although, as an open-source developer, I sometimes suspect
that Microsoft is anti-me: I wish that some of their appologists
could understand that having a large corporation trying to put
you out of work all the time does not endear you towards them),
but right here, I would rather stick with PHP because I like to get
paid, and because open source has consistently shown itself to
be more customer-focused than the proprietary models.; Posted by: Dan_Walker Posted on: 05/15/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use