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____/ Homer on Tuesday 28 Jun 2011 01:31 : \____
> [quote]
> Part of the reason Myspace struggled to keep up with emerging technology
> companies was its site architecture. DeWolfe says that when he and
> Anderson conceived of Myspace, speed to market was essential. Friendster
> knockoffs were popping up everywhere. Myspace's founders decided to
> build the site using ColdFusion, a simplistic programming language.
> "ColdFusion, even back then, in the engineering world, was thought to be
> a sort of Mickey Mouse type of technology," says DeWolfe. "But it was so
> easy to use that we could just crank it out quickly. We blew out
> Friendster. We blew out Tribe.net. We blew out everyone."
>
> They also created what DeWolfe calls "technology debt." By 2005 the site
> had outgrown ColdFusion. At that point it was too late to switch over to
> the open-source-code software favored by developers; changing would have
> delayed the site for a year or two just as it was exploding in
> popularity. The easiest move, says DeWolfe, was to switch to .NET, a
> software framework created by Microsoft.
>
> "Using .NET is like Fred Flintstone building a database," says David
> Siminoff, whose company owns the dating website JDate, which struggled
> with a similar platform issue. "The flexibility is minimal. It is hated
> by the developer community."
> [/quote]
>
> http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/11_27/b4235053917570.htm
>
> . "open-source-code software favored by developers"
> . "Using .NET is like Fred Flintstone building a database"
> . "[.NET] flexibility is minimal"
> . "[.NET] is hated by the developer community"
>
> Hehe!
No wonder Microsoft is departing from it and mobile developers ignore it (Xamarin/Miguel
do try to push it onto them).
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