Posted by Ben on 04/02/07 18:53

"Ivan Marsh" <annoyed@you.now> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.04.02.14.31.50.926057@you.now...
> On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:19:10 -0500, Ben wrote:
>
>> 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). The
>> decision makers are leaning towards .NET and I feel they are making a
>> mistake. Hoping not for MS bashing here but facts.
>>
>> - Why is/isn't .NET a better solution for large scale apps?
>>
>> - Are the majority of current large scale web apps using .NET ?
>
> There's only one thing that needs to be said about this:
>
> Microsoft Vista has ZERO .NET code in it. Why would you use a technology
> that isn't used by the manufacturer of that technology.

In reading all the replies the consensus is..."It doesn't matter". So .NET
it will likely be.

Thanks again.

=B

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