From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
> "Geo."  wrote in message
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>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote
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>> news:45a40018$1{at}w3.nls.net...
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>>> Software now use .NET to develop these applications,
>> Why? Does MS really have that much control over the developers in other
>> companies?
>
> There is some pretty good stuff in .NET for developers, including server
> related. If you have developers that already know MS technologies, it's far
> simpler to stay on that path than to start learning something new.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>
unless they've been programming with prior ms tech such as VB. We are
moving to java in part because of the now dead vb code lying about.

Adam

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