The delivery of Microsoft’s Visual Studio .Net IDE (integrated development environment) marked the beginning of the next battle phase for platform supremacy. Organizations must determine a directed approach toward platform selection and not get caught in a mire of ad hoc use. […] Business impact: Organizations’ technology choices must reflect availability of skills, or they will risk enormous cost overruns. Read the article at TechUpdate.
Battle of the platforms
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Programming is programming… one platform… is just a tool to program and solve problems… .NET is just another platform, inovative in a “package” way, but not rocket science in overall…
The choice of a platform in consideration of the skill pool available is a gross error… it will lead to unmantainable code writen in all the .NET languages… spaggetty programming to a new height!
And besides, business make decisions regarding profits not a platform or another…
Companies tie themselves to platforms. The place I work for is a “microsoft shop” and they pretty much require that everything be coded as C/C++ ActiveX objects, which they then use for VB (standalone app) or ASP (web app) interfaces. Since they use COM now it’s just a matter of time until they switch over to .NET and ASP.NET.