Re: Cost of migrating to .Net
Brad Wilson <[email protected]> Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:04:08 -0600
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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 -- Read my web log at http://www.quality.nu/dotnetguy/