Cobb: C#: A Reason to Love or Hate?

January 14, 2004

C#: A Reason to Love or Hate?

My boy V and I are having a monsterous debate about the virtues and villainy of Microsoft. We're both too small to see the whole picture, so it's tough going.

On the one hand, we are both unanimous about Microsoft's coming leadership in the game console market. They deserve it. XBox rules for many reasons, not the least of which is what an incredible thing they've done with contracting out the hardware manufacturing to Flextronics and now chip manufacture to IBM.

We clash over the issue of Java and somewhat don't care since we're talking past each other over which part of web services is more important. To me, it's unquestionably the back-end. V is a user interface guy and all for fat clients.

So I'll open the next salvo with the fate of C#. Understand that I don't want to be the one to foolishly bet against Microsoft. But I've got to say this. If Microsoft wasn't deviously trying to destroy Sun out of spite, they never would have created .Net nor supported the development of C#. I want to be a C# developer for fun and profit but I have a very sneaky suspicion that Microsoft is going to make me pay dearly for that.

As I said this summer, I've heard very good things about .Net from people I trust, but where is Microsoft positioning products to compete against BEA's Weblogic and IBM's Websphere application servers? This is the big question. Again, I am suspicious that MS is going to make me pay for something that isn't an open API.

To be continued.

Posted by mbowen at January 14, 2004 12:10 AM

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I usually have to look at backend AND frontend, although I'm partial to backend myself. The good thing about the application server market is that it's going to be a very hard market for them to penetrate. Weblogic, IBM, and Oracle will withstand this volley.

Sooner or later we'll have to pay, but I'm willing to bet it's not until the latter half of the year.

Posted by: ej at January 14, 2004 05:23 AM