Corfield/Ezell Heavyweight Bout: - via JD on MX
In this corner, in the purple trunks... Sean Corfield and Jesse Ezell square off on MX vs .NET. I'm not sure there's a debate here myself... finding the best tool for the job usually depends on the particular job in mind. Anyway, they have a couple of entries going back and forth over a few days... lots of text, could be a 15-rounder... I'll be waiting for the 30-second highlights on Sports Center, myself... ;-)
I have been following (and on occasion commenting) on this debate. I have found the debate has gotten off the subject a little bit but Jesse has posted a summary of his thoughts (and Sean is yet to comment).
To be honest I don't think that MX and .NET should be compared or contrasted but rather the greater sum of the parts should be looked at to see how the two can work togther. I do think that the next step for MX should be to see how it can fit into other studio enviroments so that gap between developers/designers be reduced.
My personal view is that MX could enjoy a closer relationship with .NET, true enough Dreamweaver has ASP.NET support and there is Flash Remoting for .NET but a lot more could be done for example, CFMX running on the CLR and a umanaged component for the Flash Player. Prehaps going a little further showing what can be done with .NET as they have with J2EE (a .NET version of CFMX would help this), promoting .NET as an application platfrom as much they do J2EE.
To be honest I think Macromedia could do with some .NET pros to help promote .NET in the Macromedia space and as Macromedia increase its product range for .NET those products in the .NET space.....hmmm a dream job ;-)
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