> Outside of it, if your project ever need to run in anything that isn't Windows, or communicate with anything that isn't Microsoft, then you can't use .Net. S

> Outside of it, if your project ever need to run in anything that isn't Windows, or communicate with anything that isn't Microsoft, then you can't use .Net. So what communication protocol are you using that .NET can't talk to? In Enterprise it's almost always SOAP or REST and .NET has some of if not the best technologies for producing or consuming both.