.NET Truth

Stability

Martin Johnson posted a comment for one of my previous posts about the stability of .NET

Well talking of stability going back to .NET Beta 1 days, there was a project that was done for US Navy and Marine Corps on Beta 1 of the 1.0 Framework and was then moved to Beta 2 and then the final release where it is functioning in top-notch condition. Need I say more???!!!

He says it much better that I ever could..:-)

A Question

One of my fellow MVPs Nauzad, sent the following mail. I think this is a very valid question. Any comments??

If java is indeed so great, and truly "cross-platform", then how come none of the mass-market, high use softwares are written in java ??? One would think that yahoo would prefer to write its messanger ONLY in java so that they don't have to release different versions for different OSes.... and that logic should follow suit for products like winamp, icq, Eudora, Napster, ACDSee, Xing, Winamp, Sonique etc.

Java vs .NET

I just got a mail from a fellow MVP. One of his friends were in the process of deciding whether they need to use .NET or Java. His set of questions were so like the ones that I answer normally, that I thought I would blog it here....

36-40

It has been a tough week/end. Now that the whole event is over, back to 36-40

Back on Monday

Am just back from the Anniversary celebrations of Chennai .NET User Group(www.cnug.net). So time to take off tomm and back to the blog on Monday...:-)

31-35

Reasons 31-35 now....

26-30

Back to work....

Some Comments

There has been a lot of people coming in after Scoble mentioned this blog and there has been a lot of good comments. I thought the following are real good points that I missed...

From Tim Marman:

To the first point, don't forget about http://research.microsoft.com.
Granted, it's a part of Microsoft, but they are dedicated to R&D and have already started contributing things to .NET (I'm told generics came out of here).

From Just Me:

Since (8) mentions JBuilder personal, why does it forget to mention C# Builder personal http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_csharpbuilder.html (free for non-commercial use)

From Jim Sfekas:

At my company, we do almost all of our development in C#, with a little bit in C++ for legacy code and for optimization. We realized that it would be hard to find too many experienced C# programmers (for obvious reasons), so all of our job listings list Java experience as a desired skill. We've had a very easy time converting Java people over to C#.

And another one from Tim Marman on Job Ratios

21-25

Well another day and another 5 questions answered....:-)

16-20

Reasons 16-20 here..