Sent by Chris Harrington on 14 October 2003 23:11
Consider this from a rational business point of view. There are two
development platforms: Java and .NET. And .NET developers have been show to
be twice as productive as Java developers. So what rational business,
given the choice, would not choose .NET for their development platform?
Chris
At 11:01 PM 10/13/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Ben --
>
> > I took him to mean a CMS that is purely developed in .NET,
> > and doesn't just
> > have *some* components developed in .NET or compatibility to
> > generate an
> > ASP.NET web site.
>
>I don't read it like that, at all. (Considering that MS renamed their
>entire development suite, ".NET", how would one would develop with MS
>and *not* be 100% .NET, anyway?)
>
>It seems pretty clear to me that, at best, Jerry's client is under some
>delusion that there is a benefit inherent to developing in .NET. They
>are unable to articulate this benefit, but they believe that it will
>somehow appear if they can find something which is "Pure Enough".
>
>This is the lunacy of people who don't understand how software is built.
>
>If it were my client I would kindly ask them to explain to me, in words,
>exactly what benefit they are hoping to get from a "Pure .NET" solution.
>My instinct, as I said to Jerry, is that they would say something like:
>
> "We want to be able to integrate our business systems into it."
> "We want our programmers to be able to customize it."
> "We want hand-held gizmos which, when the user clicks on a button, our
>website gets updated automatically -- just like in the commercial."
>
>Anyone who knows anything will immediately realize two important facts:
>
> 1. Being able to do these things does not necessarily require .NET.
> 2. Using .NET does not necessarily ensure that you can do these
>things.
>
>(Fire anyone who doesn't realize these two obvious points.)
>
>
>Hearing conversation after conversation (frequently on this list, but
>really everywhere) of people who think that some magic silver bullet
>technology is going to solve their most perplexing IT problems, sickens
>me. I'm not sickened by hearing it. I'm sickened by the unrequited
>desire to be a fly on the wall when they get a clue. I'd love to be in
>the meetings where they have to admit that merely choosing a particular
>programming language didn't solve their problem.
>
>
>TTYL,
>
>-Jesse-
>
>
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