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Here's another quote: "Please, whatever you do, stay away from .NET. It is nothing but more proprietary lock-in from the biggest proprietary software company in the world. If you are working at a company that is considering using .NET, do everything you can to keep away them from it."

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Hmmm...have they ever heard of Rotor? ECMA? Mono? Portable.NET? XML? SOAP?

Posted: Jun 27 2003, 12:50 AM by David Stone | with 3 comment(s)

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# June 27, 2003 3:50 AM

George said:

They seem to ignore the increasing proprieterization of IBM's and BEA's J2EE offerings. The only way players in that space can differentiate themselves is by putting in their own proprietary feature. BEA is now touting it's upcoming "integrated" development environment. Hmmmm. Wasn't that once a "bad thing"?
# June 27, 2003 6:07 PM

Gustavo said:

Unfortunely, mono/rotor/whatever would never take advantage of .Net since most of the useful stuff in .Net its Microsoft's IP which is not bad, and, indeed, .Net its a beautiful platform but for portability it sucks...

Of course I mean here by portability the fact that you "can't" port apps from Windows to Linux/BSD/OSX easily.

On the other hand, Java itself might be ugglier but runs everywhere and it has been opened recently so for portability I think java is the way to go, if you dont need to support anything but Microsoft platforms then im sure you can stick to .Net but if you do, then good luck trying to run say, an ASP.Net app in mono/linux.

# June 6, 2007 6:43 PM
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