Both platforms have their own good and bad issues. I have been using CF since the first versions and since the .NET platform was marketed (and the management board showed twinkeling eyes, hey another Microsoft cashcow) also started using C#. I like both, unfortunately management has problems selling CF with bigger marges, and has none with .NET. When switching to ASP.NET, keep in mind salaries will rise, costs will rise as well as the prices for an ASP.NET product. Even the simpliest smartass can make CF applications, but for C# development you need people with higher educations, the level of programming is just way higher in most cases. An often used argument for ASP.NET is also the way it forces better code. Due to compilation, syntax errors are history. Ofcourse other errors will stay, but you increase the quality of your code. For PHP this is also able but only in combination with Zend. CF has big plusses on development speed (C# development time is indeed much more, especially bug solving needs alot of time because we experienced strange bugs platform dependent), but I just hope future releases will also look at profiling options, precompiling options (and thus filtering out the syntax errors before even testing), out of the box stability, and better use of multithreading (which is supported by the underlying architecture). I saw someone asking if someone could prove .NET is faster, .. haven't you seen any benchmarks? My diff algorithm (using levensthein) is about 1000x faster in .NET and the CF code has been finetuned into it's most optimal form. CF ofcourse has it's plusses or else I would not use it, but CF cannot match .NET performance, neither can PHP, ASP, or even pure Java. Only C++ and C are quicker, people are even creating 3D games in C#.
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