From: "Robert Comer" 

> I don't see why.

If you want to get any of the big in-house specialized software systems,
you gotta be able to be ported to.  millions of lines of code are just too
much to start from scratch with. Even our trivial 5 million lines of code
couldn't be rewritten in less than a year with a big programming staff,
much less one person. (me )

>Microsoft stated from the outset that they expected to see
> Win32 apps continue to be developed, IOW .Net is not a REPLACEMENT, it's
> another CHOICE

I'm not talking Win32 app, I'm talking enterprise apps. (whatever platform)

>.Net is not a REPLACEMENT, it's
> another CHOICE.

Not quite a bet the farm attitude there...

- Bob Comer


"Ellen K"  wrote in message
news:a09cfe.578c7c{at}harborwebs.com...
> I don't see why.  Microsoft stated from the outset that they expected to
see
> Win32 apps continue to be developed, IOW .Net is not a REPLACEMENT, it's
> another CHOICE.
>
> > From: "Robert Comer" 
> > That's a serious problem for .NET if true...
> > - Bob Comer
> > "Ellen K."  wrote in message
> > news:l7ufpv8ja023s7fhcom9u437jk83ttpl08{at}4ax.com...
> >> They tried to PORT an existing app to .Net?   That's idiotic.   From
> >> everything I've read you have to start fresh.
> >>
> >> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:58:28 +0100, Adam Flinton
> >>  wrote in message
:
> >>
> >> >Ellen K. wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> It was supposedly designed especially for .Net.
> >> >>
> >> >> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:11:18 -0700, Jeff Shultz

> >> >> wrote in message :
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>>Ellen K. wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>>You're inferring that the .Net platform is
the cause of their
> > problems.
> >> >>>>It's more likely that they're simply
incompetent and the last
> > statement
> >> >>>>quoted is simple blame-shifting.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>If the stuff works on the older platform and
doesn't work with the
.NET
> >> >>>stuff... it sounds like fault isolation, not
blame shifting.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >They had an existing application (which they've retreated back to).
> >> >
> >> >Adam
> >>

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