On 8/9/10 7:30 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: > The market for the DLR, OTOH, was growing, thanks in no small part to > Microsoft's active push to attract developers to it. Their decision to > abandon their DLR development was certainly not driven by a dying market that > developers were abandoning, as is the case with Kodak's film market. Instead, > it seems much more like the abandonment of the Visual FoxPro market: lots of > enthusiastic developers that they felt were now "caught", and the desire to > move them into higher-profit, more restrictively-licensed tools.
They used the DLR to suck in engineers working inside companies that would otherwise have successfully switched their shops away from .NET completely. Now that those companies have years invested in .NET development, and the shops are doing things the .NET way, Microsoft no longer has any business interest in investing in the DLR, since those companies are no longer considering other development environments. Those that are in .NET are basically committed to .NET; those that are elsewhere are basically committed to their particular environments. There is no *marketing* reason anymore to keep investing in the DLR. IOW, as Ed said, it is all about marketing. Individual Microsoft employees were just doing their job, but as a company they had this story arc planned out all along. You can call it "just doing business". I call it evil. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
