Is Microsoft The Right Technology For A Scalable Web-Based System?

Re:Is Microsoft The Right Technology For A Scalable Web-Base... by 300bps on Monday October 07, 2013 @03:01PM (#6510414)

I've created several scalable web-based systems using ASP.NET MVC and the .NET framework. There are a lot of rabid anti-Microsoft developers on HN but generally I find the latest Microsoft tools stack up well to the competition. If you're a Microsoft developer still developing in classic ASP or classic ASP.NET and want to develop something scalable you need to move to ASP.NET MVC.

If you're not paying for open source support, the biggest downside really is the licensing costs. Getting a virtual server with Windows Server 2012 / IIS / SQL Server is a lot more expensive than Linux / Apache / MySQL or other open-source based environments. Microsoft attempts to address this with BizSpark which gives you free software license for 3 years for startup companies.

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Re:Is Microsoft The Right Technology For A Scalable Web-Base... by spoiledtechie on Monday October 07, 2013 @03:08PM (#6510461)

When did they move it to 3 years? Whoa!

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Re:Is Microsoft The Right Technology For A Scalable Web-Base... by vyrotek on Monday October 07, 2013 @03:58PM (#6510779)

It's been that for quite some time now. They also dropped the "exit fee" a couple of years ago. It also includes lots of free Azure resources too.

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Re:Is Microsoft The Right Technology For A Scalable Web-Base... by Throwadev on Monday October 07, 2013 @04:24PM (#6510985)

It's been that way for at least 4 years now.

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Re:Is Microsoft The Right Technology For A Scalable Web-Base... by ianstallings on Monday October 07, 2013 @04:10PM (#6510864)

I used it around 2002(?) when it was called the "Empower" program and it was 3 years long.

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Re:Is Microsoft The Right Technology For A Scalable Web-Base... by Toshio on Monday October 07, 2013 @04:32PM (#6511051)

> "There are a lot of rabid anti-Microsoft developers on HN"

Intellectual laziness test: Have you spent some time considering that maybe there is a good reason for that? Or are you just simplistically dismissing it out of hand as uninformed hatred?

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Re:Is Microsoft The Right Technology For A Scalable Web-Base... by craigvn on Monday October 07, 2013 @06:01PM (#6511596)

Have considered, but no one has come up with a legitimate reason. Name some "legitimate" reasons?

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Re:Is Microsoft The Right Technology For A Scalable Web-Base... by johnmacintyre on Monday October 07, 2013 @07:32PM (#6512043)

I think most of the anti-microsoft disposition is legacy and deservingly so, but IMO no longer applicable. At least not against the technology anyway, since the mvc framework is pretty good. Licensing costs are a different matter all together.

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Re:Is Microsoft The Right Technology For A Scalable Web-Base... by 300bps on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:45PM (#6512507)

I find in most cases it is people comparing Ruby on Rails or other modern development tools to Classic ASP or even Visual Basic 6 which is decades old.

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