Re: Microsoft .NET?

From:

"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:37:04 GMT

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"JohnCrowley" <johncrowleyuk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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Sorry, I should have been clearer (and I'm not particularly technical
so bear with me). We currently use Java / J2EE exclusively and I've
received a recommendation - from someone external - that it may be
worth exploring the capabilities of .NET for two reasons:

1) To explore whether it may be a better choice for certain types of
application
2) To explore whether it would be valuable to have an alternative
platform within the organisation as we have had some difficulties with
our current supplier

I realise that this may not be a sensible option but I wanted to at
least consider it, even if we don't pursue it. And wondered whether
anyone else has already been down a similar road.

    You should probably consult someone technical within your team. Being on
your team, that person will have much more insight into exactly what
difficulties you are currently experiencing, what your business process is
like, what changes will have to be made, etc. With this information, you
might then be able to answer the bottomline question of "What are the
benefits? What are the costs? Do the benefits outweigh the costs?" and make
a business decision from there.

    Otherwise, you'll probably end up playing 20-questions on the
newsgroups. E.g. What difficulties have you been having with Java so far?

    - Oliver