On May 26, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Mark Waser wrote:
That you have less than a two-to-one market share and it's dwindling?
I have ~100% market share. Not sure how it is "two-to-one" or "dwindling", though I suppose it has nowhere to go but down.
That technically .Net has blown past you and the gap only shows signs of widening?
I concern myself with big server apps, and I am not sure what this .NET gap is. Which Silicon Valley companies are developing their server infrastructure using .NET? Other than Microsoft (presumably), I cannot think of any. When companies want server bindings and drivers, they ask for C++, Java, and (god help us) PHP. I have never had anyone anywhere in government or industry ask for .NET. I am sure they exist and it will happen eventually but the avalanche of demand is not there, probably because virtually no one uses .NET on Linux.
That when Mono reaches the next version, you're going to switch?
Seems unlikely, since it does not offer anything of value for anything I might do. C is faster and more scalable for server engines, particularly for server clusters; if you are going to write that much unmanaged code, you might as well bind it to a super-productive language like Python. Is Microsoft porting Visual Studio to Unix/ Linux in the near future? I already get a really fancy Unix development environment from Apple for free, though it does not support .NET.
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