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• David Gerard

  2011-06-26 18:31:36

  .NET on the server is the generally-well-regarded way to get anything like maintainable software on a Windows server. It's about comparable to Java in programmability, maintainability and performance - unsurprising, as it's a copy of it. Notice how many Java-based tools also exist in a C# version.

• twitter

  2011-06-27 06:55:52

  The first question to ask is why you want to use Windows.
  
  I recently talked with a .NET developer who once did PHP and his opinion was that .NET lagged other framworks by years. The bottom line was that you could do everything for free outside of Microsoft with a little effort, or you could spend lots of money and effort to get an inferior copy on Windows. Throw enough in house effort at the problem and it might work.
  
  If .NET is the easiest way to do things on Windows, it's because Microsoft has driven everything else away. I think that's the point of this article. It is possible, with lots of effort, to run free software on Windows Server but the results will always be second rate because Windows is feature poor, complex and fragile. Why bother?
  
  The London Stock Exchange is a great example of why people should avoid Microsoft and .NET. After years of cost overruns and costly failures, they scrapped the Microsoft system and built a gnu/linux system for a faction of the cost.

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2011-06-27 07:11:06

  There has been hardly a word from them this year, which means it's working well.

• NotZed

  2011-06-27 21:02:43

  I'm surprised that after all these years the proles still believe that 'the next version will fix everything'. The optimism, particularly of the writer, seems wildly misplaced.
  
  It would be quite humorous if it wasn't such a disturbing example of how easily people are controlled. And but one relatively insignificant example thereof.
  
  Incidentally, I thought WPF was all but still-born, i'm surprised anyone's still talking about it. It's not technology that deserves a second chance.

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2011-06-28 07:23:21

  Even Miguel and his team stopped talking about it.