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On 07/01/13 20:10, paul sutton wrote: > Hi > > http://www.i-programmer.info/professional-programmer/i-programmer/2591-dumping-net-microsofts-madness.html > > does this mean MS are dumping .net, according to this artiicle if they > do they could be in trouble > > Paul > That 'article' is barely coherent. Trust me, in a world where countless, massive multi tens-of-thousands seat organisations are barely beginning to shift from XP and Excel spreadsheets with a bunch of crappy VB macros and even thinking about upgrading (and in many cases, not bothering because there isn't enough of a business case), .NET isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Half of the world's economy probably has .NET running it. You could be 18 and just starting your programming career right now and .NET would still be a perfectly viable choice. Sure, MVC, WPF, C# and html5/javascript are changing the game a little but my best friend is a .NET guru and recently turned down a cool job using all of these new technologies in preference for staying where he is on a guaranteed, boring and reliable mortgage payer. He makes a catastrophically larger amount of money than I do. He will also happily admit that he's a lot less good with tech than I am. The briefest perusal of the latest and greatest Visual Studio 2012 will rapidly disavow you of any mistaken beliefs that .NET is dead, it's still very much one of the crown jewels in the MS ecosystem. I actually sent my friend that article link earlier and he laughed hysterically down the phone at me. The entire world's banking systems have IBM z-series at the backend, .NET as middleware and a few weird-shit proprietary we-just can't-get-rid-of-them boxes* scattered in the mix. And Windows at the front. Linux may own supercomputing, embedded operating systems and webservers, but it's not even a rounding error for the banks. And they rule the world. Regards *Obviously, I can't name names here *cough* Co-operative Bank VMS/Alpha cluster for ALL batch processing *cough* -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq