[SGVLUG] OT - MS VS studio free to attendees of launch event

[charles at thewybles.com]

You can download a trial copy of the necessary software from Microsoft. 180 day trials are pretty common. 

Or you could you know... Purchase the software. I have purchased office/windows vista and 2008/exchange etc. Stop trying to get stuff for free. 

Or write it with mono/mono develop.

 Or use python/java/ruby/c++ which are languages that have a proven track record powering the worlds largest websites. Utilizing tools like eclipse/netbeans which are pretty cool and free is probably a better tack.  

I'm not aware of any household name web sites with millions of concurrent users being powered by .net. 

My experience with large scale sites has been php/java with oracle and mysql backends. We used eclipse/netbeans for all the development. 

Dare I ask what web 3.0 is????

Charles

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Michael B. Parker" <MBParker at Cytex.com>

Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 10:22:46 
To:"SGVLUG Discussion List." <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
Subject: RE: [SGVLUG] OT - MS VS studio free to attendees of launch event


Um, did anyone get a copy that I might have somehow?  Seriously.  I am
working on a MS SQL & Visual Studio project (a Web 3.0 thing, which I
later hope to port to open source tools), just financed with my spare
time, and would have definitely gone the this event (for the software
and instruction) but sadly I didn't see this announcement until now.  So
if someone got a copy they weren't using or might part with somehow, I'd
quite appreciate that.  (Aside: thanks for sharing this news, Matti!
Indeed it is ironic that I've been attending the local DOT NET & MS user
groups, but it's the great Linux users mailing list where I hear of this
important MS announcement - thanks!)