You can't read, then?
Many of my posts above were complimentary to .NET.
And *I* am using it, so how could I, as you tried to put words in my mouth, give "withering criticism of anyone using it"?
Do I also criticize myself?
For discussion purposes.
I do believe that in the long run, upgrading to .NET and C# is a must for anyone using current MS technologies.
For Java developers, it's an expensive step backwards, of course.
But if you're MS-only, in spite of the cost and pain, .NET is going to be a major step forward.
Once the bugs are worked out, once .NET server is finally released and then debugged, eventually .NET will be a net plus.
so what do we have here. Faint praise at best, calling .Net good for an MS product, BUT it's buggy and shouldn't be used until MS release and then debugs it (that's cute, the ever popular MS releases beta code slam, very subtle how you put it in there). Doesn't take a lot of reading comprehension to see that you used the exact same sentence structure both my logic teacher and communications teacher warned against. That's how you started the thread, and now you pretend you were looking for information, but you weren't (see I used it too, deliberately, because you didn't mean the request for information) you were looking for a soapbox. B2K called it in the air: "damning with faint praise".