On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 03:32:00AM +0200, Leon Rosenberg wrote:
} Btw... Can you name 10 successful .NET sites? Something clearly above 100
} Million PIs / month, better 1 billion PIs ?
} I'd be really interested :-)

I don't know that anyone keeps a list around, but this is a foolish
challenge to give without checking Google:

 1) www.donotcall.gov
 2) www.gop.com
 3) www.us.playstation.com
 4) www.computerjobs.com
 5) www.xanga.com
 6) asp.usatoday.com
 7) online.firstusa.com
 8) www.bankone.com
 9) www.careerbuilder.com
10) finance.lycos.com

Of course, I can't make any guarantees on how much traffic these sites get.
They are, however, pretty popular. That said, it matters very little how
many sites are successfully using it. I only know of one successfully
deployed LISP-based site, but that doesn't mean it isn't excellent
technology (see http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html).

If it's a matter of being able to find people to maintain the software in
the future, you are almost always better off choosing Microsoft
technologies, though both Java and C++ are pretty strong in that area as
well. Struts? Maybe not so much. JSF? Still new, which makes it risky.

In any case, I'm not trying to post flamebait here, nor do I wish to engage
in an argument. I would like Java and J2EE/JSF/Struts/API of the month to
be better than any Microsoft offering. I will have to learn more about JSF,
since it seems to be getting there. I can say that Java/JSP/Struts falls
short of C#/.NET/ASP.NET at this time. Those of you who have never tried
doing anything with C# and ASP.NET should try it out, just to know the
competition and to gain some perspective on the sharp corners of what you
are currently using that you have grown too used to for them to register as
worth fixing.

} Regards
} Leon
--Greg


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