Re: Cost of migrating to .Net

Brad Wilson <[email protected]> Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:04:08 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.dotnet.advocacy
Organization Your Name Here
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Anthony Skipper wrote:

> Saw this article today on the cost of migrating to .Net
> http://news.com.com/2100-1001-938394.html?tag=fd_top

> To be honest I somewhat agree that there is a large cost of migrating to
> .net.  Both in terms of training but also in porting.  Especially as I think
> that a majority of people will port their apps to C# which means itÂ’s just
> short of a rewrite.

I doubt there will be many wholesale ports of products. Re-writing working
code is sort of sadistic. :) I agree that there may be migration using MC++
in order to take advantage of new features, for those who have C++ apps
already, but re-writing is a drastic step that is virtually never warranted.

Brad

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