>I wondered if anyone out there knows of examples of startups that have developed web applications on a .NET framework? Why yes, actually -- the startup I am w

>I wondered if anyone out there knows of examples of startups that have developed web applications on a .NET framework? Why yes, actually -- the startup I am working on uses .NET as I (the technical co-founder) am traditionally a .NET developer. http://salesathand.com http://salesathand.com > We have heard that Ruby on Rails is far quicker then trying to develop a web application This is true if you are familiar with RoR. If you're not familiar with the platform then it's not going to be true. >but wondered if that is really true or if there are examples of companies that have just built on a .NET framework from the beginning? Yes, I am quite productive on .NET and that's why I stay. I'd love to migrate to an OSS platform -- Python would be amazing -- but I'm just not productive in that environment (yet) and the one thing a startup can't loose is productivity! I use tons of OSS tools, though, that make things go faster and smoother. The biggest of which is NHibernate. Also, avoid ASP.NET and use MVC if you can.