From: "Adam P. Jenkins" <thorin@...>
Date: 2005-06-25T07:55:37+09:00
Subject: Re: ASP.NET vs Ruby on Rails

Corey wrote:
> On Friday 24 June 2005 01:02 pm, Adam P. Jenkins wrote:
> 
>>the bottom line for me is that it's so MS-centric, from the SDK all the way 
>>to the servers it runs under.  If that's not a problem for you then there
>>are some definite advantages to .NET, but for all projects I've worked on,
>>being tied to a MS platform wasn't an option.
>>
> 
> 
> http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
> 
> http://www.mono-project.com/ASP.NET
> 
> 
> I'm not saying I like ASP.NET ( or any of the .NET framework ), because I 
> don't - but I had to point out that due to mono, it's not as MS-centric as 
> you suggest.

I'm aware of Mono, but I've been told that while Mono does allow you to 
use the base ASP.NET functionality, enough of the useful .NET 
functionality is proprietary and Windows-specific that in practice you 
won't usually be able to take an existing .NET app and run it using 
Mono.  Since I've not actually seriously used .NET I don't know if this 
is FUD or for real.

Adam