On Sun, 16 May 2004, Orion Productions wrote: > Shawn, > First I'd like to say that I am a big supporter of this new initiative! > And PLEASE to not listen to people who want you to push in > Perl/Java/whatever... directions. .NET is definitely the way to go!! > Do you know that it has even come so far that our customers and partners > REQUEST for dotnet solutions, and don't want to install anything else > like PHP/Perl/etc. anymore! .NET has proven to be the most powerful, > extensible, and robust platform, on which over here in Belgium now even > the banks, medical sector, etc. rely 24/7! Don't be fooled by the > pitfall of platform independency, that's not what we want, we want the > best solution for the platform that we're working on. > So go for a solution in C# (or VB.NET) with ASP.NET report pages, and > you will have a large installed base over here in the near future :-)
Just when I was hoping that EU could do the right thing with MS, you popped up and ruined my dream. BTW, you can actually use XMail because someone cared about platform independency and, at the same time, didn't care about commercial claims aimed only to make some fat CEO's ass to grow uncontrolled. And finally, for the $64000 question: Can you explain me WTF difference does it make for a report tool, that reads text files and spits HTML (and that it is absolutely not performance critical), the language that it is written in? About the "installed base" I'll give you an hint. As of today the XMail's Windows install base is about the same of all other Unix combined. So the question for the tool implementor of the day is: Do you really want to cut your user base by half? - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
