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I have a client that needs to know the low level technical negatives of moving to .NET. Before I google, any useful links that y'all are aware of?

Edit: I have to bubble up the low-level language to a management-speak level.

TIA,
Slugbug
Expand Edited by slugbug Nov. 22, 2002, 01:29:35 PM EST
New technical negatives as opposed to costs?
.net programmers are expensive right now when you could get sql and java types all day long. The long term negatives are interoperability, security and microsoft dictating business practice much like the ERP gangs modify how your company does business to fit their model.
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]


I leave symbolism for symboltons,
Carlin
New I suppose opening a 24" pipline . .
. . from Redmond directly into his bank acount doesn't qualify as a "technical negative", but expect a forced march to Longhorn and Office 11.

An important negative is Microsoft's stated goal of making all .NET systems dependent on Microsoft servers through Internet connections. This opens serious questions about security, reliability, licensing and ownership of data.

Microsoft has had to back off a bit due to a massive display of lack of trust, which forced them to rework and reposition the Hailstorm services (temporarily).

Another negative is being limited to Intel servers running Microsoft operating systems, because the server processes that are the building blocks of .NET business systems run only on those servers.

Microsoft has made lots of noise about .NET being multiplatform, but so far their multiplatform implementation extends only to different versions of Windows. I would expect Windows clients to remain an imperitive. with some very minor "check box" exceptions.

The multilanguage aspect of .NET seems to extend only as far as the ability of other languages to imitate the characteristics of C#. Their native strengths generally are irrelevant to .NET.

You can expect Java to remain excluded or severely crippled in the .NET environment.

All of these are more business negatives than technical negatives, but that's the nature of Microsoft - technology is deployed mainly to lock you into an unequal business relationship.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
New well aware...
.....of all of your points, including the 24" pipe,
and, believe me, these items are being included in
the higher level document.

But, they have other types of questions. For example,
what is the impact to back-end DB connections/connection
pooling in a .NET environment?

I need to do a bit more research....

Thx.

New non in an all microsoft world but a customer or supplier
with oracle, sybase, informix, db2 trying to share info with direct updates will have issues. Only if they "own" the networked supply chain they would have no issues as in a networked environment transactions are usually limited by the wire speed. I dont know about max thruput on terabyte datastores though.
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]


I leave symbolism for symboltons,
Carlin
New Possibly not useful but...
We have had past discussions on .NET in the programming forum.

[link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=28326|http://z.iwethey.org...w?contentid=28326]

And in another we linked to [link|http://www.javalobby.org/clr.html|http://www.javalobby.org/clr.html].

Both were generally worthwhile, but at this point are likely background knowledge that you already have.

Cheers,
Ben
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]
New Useful....thanks!
     Not .NET? - (slugbug) - (6)
         technical negatives as opposed to costs? - (boxley)
         I suppose opening a 24" pipline . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2)
             well aware... - (slugbug) - (1)
                 non in an all microsoft world but a customer or supplier - (boxley)
         Possibly not useful but... - (ben_tilly) - (1)
             Useful....thanks! -NT - (slugbug)

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