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As a .NET developer who is actively transitioning to these technologies myself, I applaud Steve & Co; nevertheless, I don't understand the strategy. I was hopin
by politician 15y ago
As a .NET developer who is actively transitioning to these technologies myself, I applaud Steve & Co; nevertheless, I don't understand the strategy. I was hoping someone around here could explain why this is in their best interest.
- planetjoe 15y agoMS is trying to push enterprises to move their datacenters to azure. To do this, they have to support a wide array of technologies such as java/memcached/ruby.
- jondot 15y agoThat's a great business strategy for them. But then again, they abandoned IronRuby, which is very frustrating. (what is the state of IronPython?). Sounds like two hands that aren't really in sync.
- sirclueless 15y agoMicrosoft employs 90,000 people. Do you honestly expect all of them to be in sync at all times? Besides, supporting third-party technologies on Azure and reimplementing open-source programming languages on top of the .NET framework seem tenuously related at best. That's actually one of the advantages of having a corporate agenda in my mind: things that are unlikely to gain traction with developers can be cut with impunity. It prevents fracturing and slowing down communities, all too common in the open-source world (think of the many, many variants of Lisp, or the recent explosion of LanguageX-to-javascript compilers).