Re: Cost of migrating to .Net

Most companies are NOT porting to .NET wholesale. Most have lots of COM
and C++ code that works. COM and C++ Interop are big areas that I see.

Sam Gentile
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-----Original Message-----
From: DOTNET-ADVOCACY [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Brad Wilson
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 5:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DOTNET-ADVOCACY] Cost of migrating to .Net

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 it?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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