Comments on: Why .Net??? http://alonshwartz.com/2008/12/why-dot-net/ Alon Shwartz Personal/Professional Blog Sun, 13 May 2012 02:40:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mera pengar http://alonshwartz.com/2008/12/why-dot-net/comment-page-1/#comment-22419 Mera pengar Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:57:50 +0000 http://alonshwartz.com/?p=10#comment-22419 I do not even know how I ended up here, but I thought this post was good. I do not know who you are but certainly you're going to a famous blogger if you aren't already ;) Cheers! I do not even know how I ended up here, but I thought this post was good. I do not know who you are but certainly you’re going to a famous blogger if you aren’t already ;) Cheers!

]]> By: Dachy http://alonshwartz.com/2008/12/why-dot-net/comment-page-1/#comment-22375 Dachy Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:12:10 +0000 http://alonshwartz.com/?p=10#comment-22375 Of all the things you've mentioned I coudn't find any that I wouldn't agree with:) Of all the things you’ve mentioned I coudn’t find any that I wouldn’t agree with:)

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]]> By: Jarrod Newton http://alonshwartz.com/2008/12/why-dot-net/comment-page-1/#comment-2001 Jarrod Newton Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:02:55 +0000 http://alonshwartz.com/?p=10#comment-2001 Nice post, nice blog, I was searching for this nowadays, thank you. I found this site on <a href="http://www.mbi.com.tr" rel="nofollow">erp</A> : <a href="http://www.mb.com.tr/eng/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mb.com.tr/eng/</A> Nice post, nice blog, I was searching for this nowadays, thank you. I found this site on erp : http://www.mb.com.tr/eng/

]]> By: Mark http://alonshwartz.com/2008/12/why-dot-net/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Mark Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:53:41 +0000 http://alonshwartz.com/?p=10#comment-6 Hi Alon! .Net and Coldfusion are the 2 Server Applications that are pre-compiled so they do not require interpreter that PHP requires so are therefore faster (how much and under what circurstances not certain). So with this and the volume of documents in your database, perhaps .Net isn't such a bad choice after all! Nice Blog! -Mark Hi Alon! .Net and Coldfusion are the 2 Server Applications that are pre-compiled so they do not require interpreter that PHP requires so are therefore faster (how much and under what circurstances not certain). So with this and the volume of documents in your database, perhaps .Net isn’t such a bad choice after all! Nice Blog!

-Mark

]]> By: ishu http://alonshwartz.com/2008/12/why-dot-net/comment-page-1/#comment-5 ishu Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:50:29 +0000 http://alonshwartz.com/?p=10#comment-5 Nice Post, Alon. In startups, one has to deliver the maximum in a minimum amount of time and resources and that holds true with respect to every aspect of a startup(technology, marketing, finance etc etc). In that spirit, If the technology lead is not comfortable with the technology he is using then open source wont make much sense to him :).. Every second is crucial when running a startup and given the small differences between the scalability and flexibility of the different technologies, there should be a little debate on which one to use and this post acts as an exact guide on which one to chose and why.. :) Nice Post, Alon.
In startups, one has to deliver the maximum in a minimum amount of time and resources and that holds true with respect to every aspect of a startup(technology, marketing, finance etc etc).
In that spirit, If the technology lead is not comfortable with the technology he is using then open source wont make much sense to him :) .. Every second is crucial when running a startup and given the small differences between the scalability and flexibility of the different technologies, there should be a little debate on which one to use and this post acts as an exact guide on which one to chose and why.. :)

]]> By: johnny http://alonshwartz.com/2008/12/why-dot-net/comment-page-1/#comment-4 johnny Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:42:49 +0000 http://alonshwartz.com/?p=10#comment-4 nYzySC Thanks for good post nYzySC Thanks for good post

]]> By: Paul http://alonshwartz.com/2008/12/why-dot-net/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Paul Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:42:23 +0000 http://alonshwartz.com/?p=10#comment-3 Ditto. Ditto.

]]> By: Jim Z. http://alonshwartz.com/2008/12/why-dot-net/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Jim Z. Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:40:43 +0000 http://alonshwartz.com/?p=10#comment-2 First Comment! Yeah! I feel like a tech geek! :-) In all seriousness though, is that question even relevant anymore? Especially with services such as DocStoc, FaceBook, and others that live and breath online only and not on the user's desktop. Ten years ago, when software resided on a company's server and had to be maintained by the company's internal staff, that question had some relevance because it determined the type of people that need to be hired/trained to maintain the system. But today, who cares? What companies like DocStoc are doing is selling a service and not software or systems or hardware. The guarantee that DocStoc makes to its users is that the service will be reliable and available. These two things have more to do with the hardware that it is running on and the bandwidth than the language or platform on which the service is built. .Net is as reliable (if not more so) than other open source platforms. The key for me is that companies or users that are using hosted services (which is essentially what sites like DocStoc, Scribd, LinkedIn, and others are) are not buying software. They are buying a service. To me it is the same as bringing in a plumber to service the pipes in your house. You do not care if the plumber learned on the job or went to plumbing school. You simple care that it fixes the problem and services you correctly. Granted, that is not always the case. If you need a lawyer or a doctor, you generally care about where they got their education and which hospitals they did their residency in, but I equate that to purchasing an ERP system. In that case, you do care about whether or not it uses SQL Server or MySQL. But do you really care what language it is written in? Even Siebel used to be written in VB and used ASP.NET for its "web" interface. And this was the number one ERP system in the world. Lets face it, every platform has its strong points and weak points. But that is irrelevant to the end user. As you have said Alon, a perfect example is MySpace and Facebook. Two companies using two very different platforms and yet very successful. Guess what the next question will be? Why did you develop your mobile application for the iPhone vs. the Android Phone... More on that later... Jim First Comment! Yeah! I feel like a tech geek! :-)

In all seriousness though, is that question even relevant anymore? Especially with services such as DocStoc, FaceBook, and others that live and breath online only and not on the user’s desktop. Ten years ago, when software resided on a company’s server and had to be maintained by the company’s internal staff, that question had some relevance because it determined the type of people that need to be hired/trained to maintain the system. But today, who cares? What companies like DocStoc are doing is selling a service and not software or systems or hardware. The guarantee that DocStoc makes to its users is that the service will be reliable and available. These two things have more to do with the hardware that it is running on and the bandwidth than the language or platform on which the service is built. .Net is as reliable (if not more so) than other open source platforms.

The key for me is that companies or users that are using hosted services (which is essentially what sites like DocStoc, Scribd, LinkedIn, and others are) are not buying software. They are buying a service. To me it is the same as bringing in a plumber to service the pipes in your house. You do not care if the plumber learned on the job or went to plumbing school. You simple care that it fixes the problem and services you correctly. Granted, that is not always the case. If you need a lawyer or a doctor, you generally care about where they got their education and which hospitals they did their residency in, but I equate that to purchasing an ERP system. In that case, you do care about whether or not it uses SQL Server or MySQL. But do you really care what language it is written in? Even Siebel used to be written in VB and used ASP.NET for its “web” interface. And this was the number one ERP system in the world.

Lets face it, every platform has its strong points and weak points. But that is irrelevant to the end user. As you have said Alon, a perfect example is MySpace and Facebook. Two companies using two very different platforms and yet very successful.

Guess what the next question will be? Why did you develop your mobile application for the iPhone vs. the Android Phone… More on that later…

Jim

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