Re: Why ASP.NET gets no Respect

I am learning ASP.NET MVC and am finding it incredibly well done. It
is open source.

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I read somewhere that the committee that heads up the standards committee for it is itself headed up by two Microsoft officers. Anyway, why use a Microsoft standard that in the /real world/ involve lots of licenses when you can use one that "belongs to" anybody who can support it credibly?

ASP.NET is seen as a big and bulky - a huge framework & runtime - requiring large servers, lots of memory etc.>

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It requires Microsoft-driven servers at that. I wonder how many servers would you have to configure to match the realtime workload of one good-sized IBM i running Zend? And how much administration (in the real world?).

You should see all the hoopla around the dot-net stuff the Microsoft guys are doing just to mediate with a third-party on-line payment service. How many servers? Can you please download the entire dozen files or so everyday to our servers?

Microsoft has such overwhelming resources, that when Bill Gates or his SEC submissions would speak of free and open-source software being a threat, I would just pass it off as hyperbole, to justify their protective maneuvers in the market. But maybe there's something to it. It's as if open-source proponents keep innovating and donating in spite of Microsoft's maneuvers in the market - with FOSS coming across as more Microsoft loathing - since there's not much economic basis for it.

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Internal memos inside Microsoft have shown that they see advantage of the open-source model over the proprietary one. Superiority really.

Dot-net has lots and lots and lots of installed momentum, but not for nothing IBM practically bet the store on the open-source market. And they're looking like winners.

--aec