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Empowering You wrote: > Tim, Empowering (can I call you Em for short?), > Well, as I said, I'm here to learn. If you read my xml-dev response > that talked about how I ended up deciding on .NET, you'll understand how > I got here. I figure if I'm going to commit to .NET, I'll have less > problems if I do things using Visual Studio.NET and technologies > Microsoft supports, trying to choose the best ones they support and the > most industry standard ones - like XML. Indeed, if you choose to pursue your profession entirely within the Microsoft sandbox, and it pays the bills, you're entirely within your rights. It is however as I said unfortunate. A lot of the interesting innovation happens outside that sandbox. In my experience virtually every big interesting business app these days ends up having cross-vendor and cross-architecture components; which is probably the main reason that XML is getting traction; Microsoft's cheerleading, while welcome, is really a sideshow. The notion that "I'll have less trouble using ... technologies Microsoft supports" is works locally but globally very unsound, monocultures and monopolies are in the big picture bad for business. I actually think .NET is pretty sound architecturally and has some clever things in it; the two main problems that face it are: - Microsoft hasn't figured out the business model - how does .NET increase their market share in non-desktop market segments? - Many potential customers who would benefit from things in .NET suffer from a fear that using .NET will mean Microsoft lock-in and they will end up stuck with enterprise software licensing costs that work like the XP licensing terms. CFOs have pots of boiling oil on the ready for anyone who commits them to any more technology deals with that kind of cost structure. -Tim
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