There are some mistakes on this excerpt: - mr was started on the end of 2004/beginning 2005 (as fair I can remember). - innovation on asp.net mvc.
But he's right about competition: mr or any other oss project can compete on adoption with ms on it's own land. the technical arguments doesn't mater.. Cheers, Henry Conceição On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:21 AM, bdaniel7 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Quote from Pro ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework, page 14. > http://www.amazon.com/Pro-ASP-NET-MVC-3-Framework/dp/1430234040 > > > "MonoRail is an earlier .NET-based MVC web application platform, > created as part of the open source > Castle project and in development since 2003. In many ways, MonoRail > acted as the prototype for > ASP.NET MVC. MonoRail demonstrated how a Rails-like MVC architecture > could be built on top of > ASP.NET and established patterns, practices, and terminology that are > used throughout Microsoft’s > implementation. > We don’t see MonoRail as a serious competitor. It is probably the most > popular .NET web > application platform created outside Redmond, and it did achieve > reasonably widespread adoption in its > day. However, since the launch of ASP.NET MVC, the MonoRail project is > rarely heard of. The > momentum of enthusiasm and innovation in the .NET web development > world is now focused on > ASP.NET MVC. " > > How do you comment on that? :) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Castle Project Development List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-devel?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Castle Project Development List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-devel?hl=en.
