.NET

[DimPrawn]

You can run .NET on Linux using an Open Source project named Mono owned by Novell.

.NET is a general wooly Microsoft marketing phrase.

To me .NET means a comprehensive class library and a set of languages that compile to a byte-code type language that runs within a sandbox using just in time compilation. The runtime has a common type sytem, memory management and fine grained security system.

It is similiar (though MUCH better) to Java and J2EE and all the associated web service XML thingies that this entails.

It's so good even AtW is using it to become a millionaire.

Soon .NET V2 will be out of beta. How exciting is that?

[EqualOpportunities]

Soon .NET V2 will be out of beta. How exciting is that?

That is, I trust, a rhetorical question :\

[FrancoLondinium]

"You can run .NET on Linux using an Open Source project named Mono owned by Novell."

You must be mad. Remember that Linux is free only if your time is worth nothing. What do you want more from Win server 2003? What's faster, more reliable and, most of all, more secure?

"Soon .NET V2 will be out of beta. How exciting is that?"

What a fantastic best practice that you can have unmanaged C++ code to screw up all your framework principles and you can't even realise where this comes from!!!! MS couldn't even do better if they wanted!!!

[MilanB]

.Net is a season ticket onto government sponsored <TOOT><TOOT> gravy trains !

Milan.

[xoggoth]

Know little of it except what I glean from trying to find ways of doing things in VB and jscript and finding I can't do them but I could if I was using .net. Dim's "comprehensive class library" seems to cover it. Common ways of doing things across several languages, VB, jscript, ASP etc. Looks brill - when I get the time!

PS A bit like API but more integrated and much nettier for netty stuff and things. And stuff.

[SupremeSpod]

.NET is for wankers!

And I claim my five new sheqalim

[BlasterBates]

no no no no

.NET is ...a philosophy, it represents hope, newness, hipness...

indeed ...its a way of life, a new way of looking at the world..

You see its more than just simply bits and bytes.

[EqualOpportunities]

.NET is ...a philosophy, it represents hope, newness, hipness...

Puff puff pass, Blaster - you know the rules :hat

[DimPrawn]

You must be mad. Remember that Linux is free only if your time is worth nothing. What do you want more from Win server 2003? What's faster, more reliable and, most of all, more secure?

There are those who know the price of everything but the value of nothing. For those sad people, Linux is the perfect computing platform.

[BlasterBates]

There are two types of people in this world:

There are those that know .NET and there are those....


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