Vista Migration Scaring Off IT Pros

[the wharf rat]

Oh, by the way. Mr. Arnold: your senior project doesn't count.
Especially since it hasn't been graded yet.

Shit. I've probably got email accounts older than you are, and
you're giving me a hard time about facts you can google? Have some respect,
kid. At least go look it up for yourself. I've even provided URLS.

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Good bye Rat, you are worthless to me with a bunch of lip service. And
whatever $100K a year gross earnings before taxes company you're working at,
if there are programmers there, they should roll your a$$ on the carpet and
have you fired.

 

[Charlie Tame]

I might not want to get tied to a proprietary platform that
removes any possibility of ever having any leverage with the vendor.
I might not want to run Windows Server because it doesn't scale well
horizontally (in fact, .net has issues with geographical scaling
because it's sensitive to network latency on distributed objects).
I might not be running on Intel hardware; .net doesn't run on Z/os.
Or Solaris.

There's lots of reasons why it might not be the best choice.



Well, about 10% of it is. The interconnect parts. That had to be
standardized to allow other vendor's web services to connect. Want to
show me the international standard for the JIT compiler?


Guy, even MS claims that .net is a web services platform:

".NET is the Microsoft Web services strategy to connect information, people,
systems, and devices through software. Integrated across the Microsoft
platform," http://www.microsoft.com/net/basics.mspx

You're confusing web services with the Web you browse with IE.


Well, shit, now yo've gone and plumb ruined my day. WhatEVER will
I do...

The critter is full of it, you may as well forget logical argument

There are now versions of .NET from 1 to 3.5 IIRC, so which to write for
to stay compatible? I guess it shouldn't matter but seems like it does

I don't actually think there's much to argue about with development
systems, but what I do see is that the market will decide and being tied
to a development system that keeps incurring costs is less profitable
than finding something that doesn't. It is not so much the development
environment that's "Best" as the environment you are comfortable dealing
with, the customer doesn't care as long as his system works.

At first sight VS2007 looks very nice and it does make development for
Windows easier because much is included that you might have to go
searching for otherwise, but this comes back to whether Windows will
always remain the big moneymaker, and that is what the market in general
will use to decide.

By choice I no longer do coding for a living, not for quite a while as
it happens, but this is not a coding issue it is one of vested interests
as I said earlier - Arnold's problem is that he is not versatile enough
to even contemplate something else.

 

[Charlie Tame]

Good bye Rat, you are worthless to me with a bunch of lip service. And
whatever $100K a year gross earnings before taxes company you're working
at, if there are programmers there, they should roll your a$$ on the
carpet and have you fired.

Very businesslike response, it only goes to demonstrate that you never
had any argument, no facts to back your non argument up with and
apparently you are a sore loser, which we pretty much knew anyways.