Delicious Schadenfreude from London

[Chris Puttick]

2009/10/8  <sounder-request at lists.ubuntu.com>:
>  Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:57:40 +0100
> From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Delicious Schadenfreude from London
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> 2009/10/7 Samuel Thurston, III <sam.thurston at gmail.com>:
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>>> If your devs are doing all .NET, use IIS. If not, use Apache on Unix.
>
>> How mature is mod_mono? is anyone using it in production? ?I
>> understand it's not feature-complete, but 99.9% of .NET apps don't use
>> all the features of .NET so I wonder how bad it could really be. ?In
>> my (again, anecdotal) experience OSS reimplementations of MS Protocols
>> tend to outperform the MS products. I'm looking at you, Samba.
>
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> Mono is pointless. If you're developing on .NET, use .NET. Mono has
> zero compelling applications. After years, its inroads into Unix
> consist of a few desktop toys, and those are rightly pilloried for
> their ridiculously fat arses. For that sort of thing on Unix, use Java
> - the thing that .NET is a cheap knockoff of. Nothing compelling on
> the desktop, but in the commercial world Java on Linux owns the
> server.
>

If your developers are using .net, tell them to stop. They are in
effect locking the organisation into an expensive reduction of
choices. If they are using mono, tell them to go use .net in someone
elses organisation...

And for those who wanted the fact's on Mr Shuttleworth's support of
Kubuntu, it is actually KDE where he has been, as always, generous
with his cash: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/dot-stories/2006-October/000956.html

Cheers

Chris