Microsoft Takes .NET Open Source

[NeedSomeAnswers]

How do you mean?

Well i am sure i have already made these points earlier in the thread so i will repost them

- Visual Studio Community 2013 (which replaces the Express Editions and doesn't have the restrictions) - Free for hobbyists, individual developers and crucially for Small businesses.

- As for making the .Net server side stack open source and cross platform what they are doing essentially is making it possible to make web and mobile apps using .net work across all the different web and mobile platforms.

As far as i see it these announcements are good for developers, and will in the longer run be good for MS as they will encourage more developers to there platform, and more companies to use there tools.

[szlamany]

Well i am sure i have already made these points earlier in the thread so i will repost them

- Visual Studio Community 2013 (which replaces the Express Editions and doesn't have the restrictions) - Free for hobbyists, individual developers and crucially for Small businesses.

- As for making the .Net server side stack open source and cross platform what they are doing essentially is making it possible to make web and mobile apps using .net work across all the different web and mobile platforms.

As far as i see it these announcements are good for developers, and will in the longer run be good for MS as they will encourage more developers to there platform, and more companies to use there tools.

As a small independent software vendor this announcement might have an impact of future decisions I make.

Currently I've taken most of my UI work into browsers for flexibility. My only MS reliance is the backend code running under IIS.

I've also got a potential new Winform type UI that I was looking to go with a non-.Net solution (maybe C++ talking directly to api's).