Re: Why ASP.NET gets no Respect

[steelville <steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I am learning ASP.NET MVC and am finding it incredibly well done. It
> is open source.
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I read somewhere that the committee that heads up the standards 
committee for it is itself headed up by two Microsoft officers. Anyway, 
why use a Microsoft standard that in the /real world/ involve lots of 
licenses when you can use one that "belongs to" anybody who can support 
it credibly?

> ASP.NET is seen as a big and bulky - a huge framework & runtime - requiring large servers, lots of memory etc.>
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It requires Microsoft-driven servers at that. I wonder how many servers 
would you have to configure to match the realtime workload of one 
good-sized IBM i running Zend?  And how much administration (in the real 
world?).

You should see all the hoopla around the dot-net stuff the Microsoft 
guys are doing just to mediate with a third-party on-line payment 
service. How many servers? Can you please download the entire dozen 
files or so everyday to our servers?

> Microsoft has such overwhelming resources, that when Bill Gates or his SEC submissions would speak of free and open-source software being a threat, I would just pass it off as hyperbole, to justify their protective maneuvers in the market.  But maybe there's something to it.  It's as if open-source proponents keep innovating and donating in spite of Microsoft's maneuvers in the market - with FOSS coming across as more Microsoft loathing - since there's not much economic basis for it.
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Internal memos inside Microsoft have shown that they see advantage of 
the open-source model over the proprietary one. Superiority really.

Dot-net has lots and lots and lots of installed momentum, but not for 
nothing IBM practically bet the store on the open-source market. And 
they're looking like winners.

--aec