Excellent page.
I didn't realize I was opening up Pandora's box with this thread. I can see everyone's point fairly clearly. But the brunt of the situation with myself and my company is the fact that... yes we have lost jobs over the type of development used. And yes, I had a major client of mine spend a year with several (minimum of 3, somtimes 5) developers that took all the work I did on their site and switched it to .NET. I bet they spent several hundred thousand dollars doing this switch. When I asked management why, I was told that the IT department said Witango was dead; the IT department did not understand Witango nor were they even willing to learn (they were all young kids fresh out of school); they couldn't find local developers that were willing to consult using Witango except for myself; they spent $25,000 on T4.
What really ticks me off is the fact that they took my logic on how the site was layed out and worked it to .NET. The site was a portal to sell their products through other affiliates. It had 181 affiliates when I left and probably has a lot more now. All the html tags, metetags and style sheets were stored in SQL and called from an affiliate ID. As far as I know, the SQL never changed, just the front end to access the info. So really it was 181 separate websites with different fonts, colors, art, buttons, phone numbers, addresses, etc.
well ... I thought it was nifty :)
Sorry, I digress...
Anyway, the facts of the matter for me is that I can understand the Witangoers beating their drums for the product, heck, I got a big stick that I bang too. But most of the people I have to convince in using my services are usually illiterate when it comes to development and they need some sort of comfort level or I am going to miss out on the job. Competition is very fierce here (Minneapolis) and 80% of all developers seem to be using Micr$oft. and if not Micro$oft, Cold Fusion. So a manager who makes the decisions will ask someone in their company (usually an IT guy) about Witango and they will get "I never heard of it" but asked about XML they will be good to go.
Sorry these are the facts of life for me.
I might be going out on a limb, but maybe this is what you were looking for:http://xml-extra.net/webpage.xmlx?node=84
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