Re[2]: [PHP] Opinions on Micro$oft .NET

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, 9:13:03 PM, John wrote: JWH> Jay Paulson wrote: >> The company I work for just got bought out by a larger company. The larger company uses >> .NET from Micro$oft. I of course use all open source stuff for our web sites and now the new company >> wants >> to come in and pretty much blow away everything I have done and use their .NET setup. JWH> First I'd quit referring to it as Micro$oft if you want to be taken JWH> seriously. You should be professional about this. If the new company JWH> wants to use a .NET solution, then you should begin learning a .NET JWH> language. I agree completely with the good captain here. Its very unprofessional to use Micro$oft. You might has well start saying you are "1337" (don't ask me how long it took me to figure that one out). Personally, I find that people that tend to hang on to one particular toolset ... two things happen to them. Either they become extremely proficient and extremely valuable, or they are yesterday's news. This is true for just about any computer related language/platform etc. that I can think of. I am currently in a situation where I have been hired to develop a few webservices for a client. At first, I looked at PHP and XML-RPC, since PHP was what I was programming in currently and it was the freshest thing in my mind. After reasearching the topic, I found out that _for my client_ it was better to go with .NET. After considerable reading at the local technicaly library, a few hundred in books, and a lot of googling and asking around, I found out the exact pros and cons of using .NET, and I presented these to my client (during the prelim stages). The bottom line is, unless you start thinking in terms of your client (in this case, your new company) and start to figure out how you can become a more important asset to them, you will quickly find yourself (depending on your company), either denied promotions, projects, etc. ... or in this day and age, you might just get the boot. As for myself, I am well on my way to learning .NET's webservice particulars, and finding that C# can be a "Good Thing". I cannot attest to any performance claims, since my personal projects have been on the "hello world"-type scale, but alot of reports floating around on the net suggest that -- with the proper hardware configuration -- .NET-based platforms are quite reliable and speedy. Just my $0.02 or whatever $0.02 is in euros. -- Regards, Burhan Khalid phplist[at]meidomus[dot]com http://www.meidomus.com