Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

["Maurice O'Prey" <Maurice.Oprey@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe wrote

> > And we completely disagree on ASP .NET.

True (does that mean we agree?)


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: 09 October 2010 21:33
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

Maurice O'Prey wrote:
> Hi Joe (long time no hear)
>
>   
> > > but I won't convince NETizens of that, so we can drop the thick client
> > >       
> discussion here.
>
> I Should point out I am not, and never have been, a thick client fan (my
> interest has always been in Client Server, e.g. ASP.NET)
>
> Maybe at least we agree on something ;-)
>   

We do - thick client is pretty awful.  And we completely disagree on ASP 
.NET.  Whether it's webforms or MVC, the Microsoft model is way too 
proprietary for me.  You CAN make it work and play with the really good 
stuff out there (like Dojo) but it isn't easy.

Joe