Hi Peter, We are a long-standing MUMPS/Cache shop and like it a lot as a database. But we had to decide how to do web front-ends. In the end we've decided on ASP.NET because of the ease of development and (especially) the separation of application code from HTML. ASP and old-style CSP have the HTML and application code all jumbled together, but ASP.NET has the code hived off to a 'code behind' file. CSP Development is not easy and Cach� Studio is nowhere near as good as Visual Studio.NET. Ask InterSystems why and they say "We do databases, we're not a development tools company". By contrast Microsoft recently announced ASP.NET 2.0 and loudly banged the 'ease of development' drum.
Joining back-end and front-end is a problem, especially as M$ wants to steer everyone towards SQL Server. You have a choice of: - ODBC (lowest common-denominator, so you might as well use SQL Server or whatever) - Cach� Objects (flexible, but until Cach� 5.1 this requires COM Interop. Also, the interface can easily get untidy IMHO) - XML Web Services (Quite an overhead, but sexy and fashionable and well supported by both Cach� abd .NET) We did a proof-of-concept app with an ASP.NET (DotNetNuke) front-end talking to a Cach� Objects back-end and it seemed to work fine in spite of COM Interop. We're now thinking in terms of XML Web Services for the interface, and using SharePoint Services as a framework for the front-end ASP.NET apps. So it's ASP.NET for us, but we're starting from scratch. I don't know if there are 'migration tools' for converting ASP to ASP.NET. The migration wizard for turning VB6 to VB.NET Winforms apps was a bit of a waste of space though. HTH Regards Jay Ayliff Stalis Ltd "Peter Haider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello Newsgroup, > currently now i am working with Classic ASP. > In most cases i use Mysql or MS SQL 2k. So far so good. > What i want to know, is it worth to evaluate Cache against .Net? > I think to migrate my application to DotNet, Cache could be also an option. > Do i stay with Dotnet on the right side or is this only a markting > statement? > And what is your experiance to position a product with Cache against DotNet > in the market, could i stand? > Hope to hear (read) a lot of your experiance. > Best regards > Peter Haider > >
