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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by ww520 on Thursday January 12, 2012 @10:32PM (#3459056)
Your meant Anders Hejlsberg from Borland who created C# in Microsoft? Those ridiculous salaries Microsoft paying him are peanuts compared to the huge value he created for Microsoft.
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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by ootachi on Thursday January 12, 2012 @11:31PM (#3459201)
C# has yet to drive meaningful business value for Microsoft. It certainly didn't topple Java the way they hoped it would, and it didn't even manage to gain internal mindshare for Windows Vista and Windows 7 apps. There's XNA, but that's not for the big triple-A titles. Despite the best efforts of the Developer Division, Microsoft's cash cows are still powered by C++, C++, C++.
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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by philwelch on Friday January 13, 2012 @01:08AM (#3459387)
You have absolutely no idea just how many internal enterprise applications are developed in C#. You don't see them, being that they are internal enterprise applications, but they do exist. And it's a huge market.
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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by whatusername on Friday January 13, 2012 @12:21AM (#3459300)
It didn't topple java but it created a viable altenative. Think how many more MS shops would be looking at Java if C# didn't exist.
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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by recoiledsnake on Friday January 13, 2012 @12:33AM (#3459322)
>C# has yet to drive meaningful business value for Microsoft.

ASP.NET on IIS on Windows Server.

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