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Why Microsoft's .NET is about to fail

moreambitious.blogspot.com — Blogger "MoreAmbitious" has eleven - in my opinion - valid points why Microsoft's .NET strategy is about to fail. VB6 people aren't switching, few relevant and innovative open-source projects, etc. Think twice before using it, because MS isn't either (in Vista)!

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  • RyanOC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This guy is an idiot, .net is very strong in the industry as well as java. They are both great

    no digg!
  • Cander, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"When a large company spends obscene amounts of money promoting and marketing a "language," then yes, it does matter whether or not the language succeeds or fails."

    Not to developers.
  • Cander, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4When will langauge fanboys learn that languages are tools and dont need to succeed or fail?
  • kungPow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Python is more likely to fail than .NET: http://www.devwebpro.co.uk/devwebprouk-46-20060503SwayingACoderAwayFromPython.html
  • Cander, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"For CTO types, it already has failed. Java has tenure and a track record where the past 3 years have been extremely successful"

    C had tenure and track record before Java. So is Java a failure?
  • anphanax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2* VB6 people are not migrating to .NET.

    I used to use VB6 for quick applications a lot more than I do now. .NET languages like VB .NET and C# provide much better functionality than VB6 ever did. Of course trying to explain the benefits of multi-threading to someone who creates simple DB frontends in VB6 (which is arguably easier in .NET) probably will just go over their head.

    * .NET is bound to the Windows platform, will follow it's continued success/failure.

    So? Win32 is bound to the Windows platform too, and yet there's Wine.

    * Where's the competition in the area of the IDE? Java has Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ to name a few.

    With all due respect, i've used Eclipse and NetBeans, and both of them had some annoyancse compared to VS2003 and VS2005 (although 2005 has its own). Eclipse is somewhat of a slow memory hog, and installing the Visual Editor wouldn't be too easy for a programming newbie trying to make Java stuff. NetBeans was still too slow last time I used it, and seemed awkward compared to say... Glade. Although I would like to note I use Eclipse occasionally, and I enjoy programming in Java.
  • burnt1ce85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2 This guy sounds like he doesnt know what he's talking about.
  • kyriakos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4and supposibly java is about to take off any time now for the past 9-10 years.. (well whenever it was first introduced)
  • Cander, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Yawn. Supposedly .NET is about to fail for like the 3rd year in a row.
  • dieseltravis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"from a non-technical standpoint - a desaster"

    spelling errors are katastrophic to your argument

    ;-)
  • bradwich, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1When a large company spends obscene amounts of money promoting and marketing a "language," then yes, it does matter whether or not the language succeeds or fails.

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