:Builder AU: Why There's No Need to Abandon .NET for Open Source
Builder AU: Why There's No Need to Abandon .NET for Open Source Jan 5, 2005, 04 :00 UTC (11 Talkback[s]) (6644 reads) (Other stories by Tony Patton)
"A client recently greeted me with a barrage of complaints about Microsoft, product costs, and so forth. They wondered aloud whether they ought to assemble a strategy for moving to an open source platform to save money. Now, I'm not one to start an argument about the merits of consumer vs. open source. Rather, I took the opportunity to point out the open source route available to .NET connoisseurs.
"For the sake of this article, I'll concentrate on client/server applications..."