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 Vikas Kamat is a programmer- entrepreneur living in Atlanta. This blog is a complex mix of Indian culture, life in southern USA, computer sciences, and sports. Opinions are his own.
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Love ThinkPad, Hate .NET

I just love my new IBM Thinkpad. Not since the days of Compaq Aero have I fallen love with a portable computer. I love the usability of the keyboard (one suggestion: move the rarely used Fn key somewhere else, it is occupying the important position of the Ctrl key!), the crisp display, and especially the ThinkLight (a miniature white-light on top the display). The wireless worked flawlessly and the nicely loaded (1GB RAM, DVD) machine is fast.

Rather, I should say, it was fast, till I installed .NET development environment.

Am I the only one who thinks .NET is very slow?

Punishment for Using Microsoft ASP?

Recently I was talking with the president of a services company torn between investing in .Net and recuperating his prior investments in VB/ASP (now called Classic ASP).  He said that all his programmers wanted to redesign the company's systems in .NET, and asked me pointedly,

"Tell me Mr. Kamat, what is the benefit to my customers if we use .Net in our products?"

"None!" I said, and he looked excited.

I continued, "Except that in a year or two from now when Microsoft pulls the plug on ASP, you will still have a business to run".

His face fell as if to say "is this the punishment for endorsing prior Microsoft technologies?"

Visual Studio Magazine: "Microsoft's loyal customers deserve better." I agree.

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(Comments Disabled for Now. Sorry!)First Written: Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Last Modified: 2/14/2004

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