come on. Microsoft is selling their BPOS (love that shortcut) for little money. They are giving away their software for free for small companies / start-ups and in the education space. You can get a big software package with 10 seats for very little money by becoming a Microsoft Business Partner.
What do you have do do for it?
Sign in with your company profile and pay less than 300 GBP per year.
In addition Microsoft margins are very low in SMB except you find some customers that don't care about paying 20%+ more.
With Azure they have started a very big cloud initiative.
If you think IBM is evil ask Anti-Virus vendors what they think about Microsoft's free Anti-Virus solutions for consumer and small business.
Sure you can make money as a .Net developer as you can with PHP or Java or any other technology. And the fact that .Net does not narrow you on collaborative solutions but works in a much broader range of applications is a plus.
But if you are a Business Partner and make your money with one of the big vendors you are having "fun" with all of them.
The circumstance that there is less Domino work is a direct result of many years of stagnancy and IBM's decision to push other products and technologies.
Giulio,
come on. Microsoft is selling their BPOS (love that shortcut) for little money. They are giving away their software for free for small companies / start-ups and in the education space. You can get a big software package with 10 seats for very little money by becoming a Microsoft Business Partner.
What do you have do do for it?
Sign in with your company profile and pay less than 300 GBP per year.
In addition Microsoft margins are very low in SMB except you find some customers that don't care about paying 20%+ more.
With Azure they have started a very big cloud initiative.
If you think IBM is evil ask Anti-Virus vendors what they think about Microsoft's free Anti-Virus solutions for consumer and small business.
Sure you can make money as a .Net developer as you can with PHP or Java or any other technology. And the fact that .Net does not narrow you on collaborative solutions but works in a much broader range of applications is a plus.
But if you are a Business Partner and make your money with one of the big vendors you are having "fun" with all of them.
The circumstance that there is less Domino work is a direct result of many years of stagnancy and IBM's decision to push other products and technologies.