From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo."  wrote in message
news:45a475f6$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> 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.
>
> I would be very uncomfortable buying a development platform from a major
> competitor. That alone would balance out the "pretty good stuff".

You don't have to buy anything as the platform is free, plus MS is actually
not a bad parter for software developing companies. I've been in their
partner programs for, oh, maybe 8 years now, and they're far better than
any other company in that field. Borland, for example (and I use Borland's
products as my main dev tools) pretty much suck, blow and stink as a
provider of tools that I depend on.


Antti Kurenniemi

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