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Re:C# is the past, the present and the future by cageface on Friday January 11, 2013 @05:46AM (#5042154)
C# is a great language and Ximian has been doing brilliant work on Mono but I'm actually starting to wonder about the long-term prospects of Microsoft. Without a significant corporate sponsor I'm just not sure it has the momentum to endure.
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Re:C# is the past, the present and the future by tonyedgecombe on Friday January 11, 2013 @05:55AM (#5042171)
C# and .Net exist to support Microsoft's enterprise customers, I don't see any signs that that side of their business is struggling.
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Re:C# is the past, the present and the future by rjd on Friday January 11, 2013 @05:56AM (#5042175)
Most of the Microsofts revenue comes from server side stuff anyway, 60% from memory(?), it'll be a good 5 years at least before that market dents. I don't think you'll see c# going away anytime soon.

EDIT : couldn't find 2012 but heres 2011 http://punchcut.com/sites/punchcut.com/files/win8_1-8_eb-msf... business + server looks around 60% which I guess is where my figure comes from

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Re:C# is the past, the present and the future by smegel on Friday January 11, 2013 @06:14AM (#5042223)
I thought office was the cash cow...lot more desktops out there than (Windows) servers.
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Re:C# is the past, the present and the future by josteink on Friday January 11, 2013 @06:50AM (#5042294)
But lots of those desktops comes with cheap, sponsered OEM-licenses of Windows and Office. You don't get OEM rebates for your MS server-park.
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Re:C# is the past, the present and the future by smegel on Friday January 11, 2013 @07:41AM (#5042398)
Not the ones in corporations, they don't get oem anything. MS can, and does, extort practically whatever it wants from big business who basically are incapable of realizing alternatives to office/windows.
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