Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 20th Feb 2002 18:45 UTC
A lot of people have trouble understanding what .NET really is and what its goals are. Mostly because Microsoft has done a good job of confusing everybody using terms that are not self-explanatory or with terms that mean more that one thing. This editorial will present my thoughts on .NET, what it really is, what its motivations and goals are, and why it is the next "big thing." Should we embrace it or fear it? Both, I daresay.
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There are some MS doomsayers here that are just being blind to dogmatic reasoning. Just because it comes from MS doesn't make it bad. If you look at what .NET is, it is a *very* good idea. For the person that talked about php being a way to communicate cross platform, that's all good and fine, except .NET does that to programs. Every program that has a .NET runtime, no matter what OS no matter what processor, it will run at near C speed. No recompiling for the end user ever again which is a big step over what some OSs can provide.