Posted by Tim Van Wassenhove on 04/01/07 15:40

Ben schreef:
> This is not a troll post. I am doing research on my own too but could use
> your guys/gals help. As mentioned in prev thread our company is about to
> embark on building a large scale web based application. "Shimmy" provided
> some help already but need more. This app will be hit by thousands of
> users, large data sets and be fed by GPS handheld devices such as cell
> phones, which will also require apps we write running on them. The response
> time of current data to screen is paramount (which relies in largely on DB
> design I realize).

Imho the quality of the network connection (bandwith and latency) are
very important too.

The decision makers are leaning towards .NET and I feel
> they are making a mistake.


Why do you think they are making a mistake? Under the assumption that
they have foundings for their conclusions, which of these would you want
to debunk?

It's possible to make unreliable, insecure applications that run over
time and budget with any development platform... Imho, it all depends on
the capabilities of the people that are going to realize (analyze,
architect and develop) the product.



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Tim Van Wassenhove <url:http://www.timvw.be/>

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