RE: [IMail Forum] Short survery

[Kevin Bilbee]

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.NET adds a lot of extra complexity from multiple avenues with little to be gained in exchange.  I would much prefer a DLL similar to many ASP components that one might purchase, where the scripting is done in ASP (VBScript) and the source is open for all to tweak as they see fit.    With .net you get much better performance and stability than ASP. Imagine if people started changing the code what a support nightmare that would be for IPswitch. I'm a bit scared of .NET regardless of the added complexity.  It's a version 1.1 environment, and in moving from 1.0 to 1.1 my only .NET application had issues.  Microsoft is known to make changes to such things over time, and incompatibilities could result in tough choices between patches/upgrades and breaking Web mail.  .NET seems more suited to be a proprietary programing environment that can be used to drive sales of and dependencies on other Microsoft products such as Visual Studio.  That relationship concerns me.    Was this a web app?? The 1.0 and 1.1 frameworks will live happily side by side so if you had problems it would have been something you did, possibly removing the 1.0 framework and installing the 1.1??? .net is not married to Visual Studio. There a other development environments out there to create .net applications. You can use notepad if you want! There is also a project called Modo which is port the .net framework to Linux.     I have many 1.0 and 1.1 apps running on the same box.  I think that from Ipswitch's perspective, they also shouldn't want to be in the position of trying to troubleshoot other people's .NET environments, or risk the future of their Web interface by marrying it so tightly to a new and deeply proprietary environment that will definitely change over time and between versions.    This would be IPSwitches decision. But the environment is not difficult to debug and what is the difference IPSwitch will just blame it on the NIC. :) There are only a few config files the are used to setup the way permissions are granted. IPSwitch should not have to change any of these settings.     Kevin Bilbee