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Builder AU: Why There’s No Need to Abandon .NET for Open Source

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 5, 2005

“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…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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