Re: Holding off recommending Node.JS for now

[Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kelly

or look on your company equity and shift to SAP and don't ask me why you
have to look at the equity because everybody knows that is about what a SAP
project costs - or rather - ends ;-)

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Richard Schoen <
Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sounds like .Net is the current and future state of your web development.
>
> Better start learning .Net if you're going to participate in the web
> application development process in your shop.
>
> 2 years is an eternity in IT so I am expecting you'll still be using .Net
> in 2 years unless you hire a dev manager with PHP experience who says PHP
> is it, or Ruby and says Ruby is it, or someone with Node.Js who says Node
> and Javascript is it.
>
> Embrace what your team is using today and continue to self-educate on the
> other platforms if it interests you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Schoen | Director of Document Management Technologies, HelpSystems
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> message: 3
> date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:09:09 +0000
> from: Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: [WEB400] Holding off recommending Node.JS for now
>
> I'm leaning more and more towards making a "wait-and-see" recommendation
> about node to our shop.  This isn't so much about node per se. It's more
> about: (a) the circumstances in the shop where I work, and (b) Microsoft
> making ASP.NET 5 open source and multi-platform.
>
> Learning that ASP.NET 5 has become open source and multi-platform changes
> my perspective entirely. My shop already has a lot of experienced .NET
> developers, and we already use .NET for all of our web and mobile
> development. My shop could probably afford to wait a year or two and see if
> ASP.NET 5 gets ported to the IBM i. If ASP.NET 5 does get ported to PASE,
> then it would make so much more sense for my shop to use ASP.NET 5 rather
> than node. If ASP.NET 5 doesn't get ported to PASE, we could still use
> .NET running in IIS and the .NET Provider to do all of our web and mobile
> development. It wouldn't be the same path we're already on today.
>
> Maybe in a year or two, we would be able to compare a slightly more mature
> node against a slightly more mature open source ASP.NET 5 and make a
> decision that's better for us than we can make today.
>
> Kelly Cookson
> IT Project Leader
> Dot Foods, Inc.
> 1.217.773.4486 ext. 12676
> kcookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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