On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 10:51 -0700, Lan Barnes wrote: > > > Meanwhile as best I can discern from the point of view of nearly every > > developer I talk with Microsoft is irrelevant. The Web is all that > > matters. > > Google matters, etc. but Microsoft is no longer a player. > > Alas would that it were so. We have a strong core of C# advocates here. > The .NET crowd morphed into C# when .NET was suddenly not-so-shiny > anymore. Microsoftians have a short racial memory. >
Unfortunately I've heard a couple engineers here talking about current projects being written in C# and other conversations about .NET. Both scare me. We just transitioned much of our IT infrastructure to Linux. We develop our embedded code on Linux platforms. I have a Linux box that I use for 99.9% of the work I do, including writing test and production utilities in Java on Linux. I rarely turn my Windoze computer on, and when I do it's more trouble than it's worth. I'm finally getting away from M$ and Windoze, and here comes some engineer(s) with brilliant ideas about using C# and .NET. I saw this a lot in school as well. Note that the school I went to had classes full of working professionals. These people are supposed to have some sort of a clue about technology (with the exception of the ones that were making a career change from an un-related field). There were a large number of them that simply embraced .NET, C#, and other M$ technologies just because they were M$ and "...but everyone uses Microsoft...". Hello, just because everyone walks off a cliff doesn't mean you need to do it too! Even toward the end of the courses, in the final classes before graduation, an alarming number of people would still discount the idea (which was taught class after class) that the number one criteria for choosing software is will it do the job, not who makes it or how popular it is. PGA -- Paul G. Allen BSIT/SE Owner/Sr. Engineer Random Logic Consulting www.randomlogic.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
