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Everything you say makes sense to me. ...Except that last part. If a job pops up and a client wants .NET, I would strongly encourage them against it. Why? Well
by thenduks 17y ago
Everything you say makes sense to me.
...Except that last part. If a job pops up and a client wants .NET, I would strongly encourage them against it. Why? Well like you said, you don't want to be locked in. Why would you be ok with locking in the client? If that client's site gets bigger and they need another box or what-have-you -- oops, that's another X thousand dollars for another license, etc. That sort of thing would not be ok with me.
Of course, I'm not a freelancer, so maybe my take on client-is-always-right will vary wildly from yours :)
- thismat 17y agoNo I agree, I would prefer not to work in .NET for my personal development honestly, but I do know that like my shop, some corporations or small businesses are already locked into the Microsoft stack, and won't consider something like Rails or Django for their production applications. Obviously these are normally for more business oriented, intranet style applications, not normally public sites, so scaling is a little different and normally they will have their own server licenses already.