[dba-Tech] Is Microsoft Dumping .Net?

 Hi Jim --

Most of the business mobile apps' functionality is expected to be hosted/run "on cloud" with not more than 10%-20% of total app's codebase being UI part - so assuming "cloud" part is done UI part development when using hybrid or native approach shouldn't be very time consuming I suppose...

<<< PS You are doing a great hosting job? Are the streets very crowded? >>>
Do you  mean current G20 summit? - they have got dedicated highway, which was built specifically for them, and most of G20 participants live outside of Spb downtown so G20 summit doesn't add any/that much new auto traffic jams. But local airport is paralyzed AFAIK. And Mr.Obama and also China officials decided to stay in the city AFAIHH so they could introduce quite some traffic jams in the mornings/evenings while driving to/from summit meetings.
I must note I'm out of the city till the middle of the next week so I can just read about G20 summit from Internet, I do not watch local TV as it's a biased pro-Putin propaganda.
The street do not look more crowded than usually - here are webcams (see live view at the middle of the following web pages) - city downtown - http://vpiter.com/web-camera-ploshad-vosstaniya/ ,   http://vpiter.com/web-camera-gostiniy-dvor/  ,  http://vpiter.com/web-camera-admiral/  ,  http://vpiter.com/web-camera-kazan/  - other ones -  http://vpiter.com/web-camera/  ...

-- Shamil

Thursday, September  5, 2013 2:33 PM -06:00 from Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca>:
>Hi Shamil:
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>Let us hope that working on the new Windows phones will be very profitable. With the new potential, now that Windows owns Nokia, it is looking good. 
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>If you write in native code it is always faster running and a lot smoother. 
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>There are many developers that do but they also re-write their apps again for both the iOS and Android and it can be a very time consuming process. If a client wants some app done quickly, expensively, on multiple platforms is there any other way than to boiler-plate it together other than to write it in HTML5?
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>PS You are doing a great hosting job? Are the streets very crowded? 
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>Jim
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>From: "Salakhetdinov Shamil" < mcp2004 at mail.ru >
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> Hi Jim --
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>but at least in the short term, it may created a small group of entrenched developers.
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>Yes, if you are properly skilled, experienced, hardworking and lucky you have a chance to make your small fortune developing for WinPhone... and get happily yearly  retired :)
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>"Why Windows Phone is a huge opportunity for indie developers "
>http://blog.brianhama.com/2013/08/29/windows-phone-opportunity-for-indie-devs/
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>
>-- Shamil
>
>Wednesday, September  4, 2013 9:04 PM -06:00 from Jim Lawrence < accessd at shaw.ca >:
>>Hi Arthur:
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>>I just read an article on the same topic but the swing was the exact opposite. It was saying that Microsoft's adoption of the HTML5 standard was only half heartedly. MS just can't win. 
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>>That fact is if MS wants to be taken seriously in the web world they are going to have to accept the standards. If that means something like the incorporating Google Youtube videos requires standardization, so be it. The rest of the internet has such a huge lead on Microsoft's adoption that unfortunately MS is going to have to just follow and at some time in the future they may be able to introduce their own standard where none currently exists or is not well established.
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>>The buying of Nokia phones may be just the opportunity for MS. A platform on which to develop their own standards...not a wise choice, in the long run, but at least in the short term, it may created a small group of entrenched developers.
>>  
>>Jim
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Arthur Fuller" <  fuller.artful at gmail.com >
>>To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <  dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com >
>>Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 12:05:46 PM
>>Subject: [dba-Tech] Is Microsoft Dumping .Net?
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>>Interesting article on I Programmer; suggests that MS's move to HTML5 and
>>JavaScript has left lots of .Net programmers miffed and feeling abandoned.
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>>See
>> http://www.i-programmer.info/professional-programmer/i-programmer/2591-dumping-net-microsofts-madness.html
>>.
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>>-- 
>>Arthur
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