[GLLUG] M$ opens up Visual Studio and .NET to EVERY Developer.

[Mike Szumlinski]

Interesting.  I've admittedly always been interested in .NET but also have never wanted to spend the money/time to spin up an MS server platform.

I wonder if this means IIS is coming to Linux as well?  It mentions the whole stack.

--
Mike

-please excuse typos, written from mobile-

> On Dec 9, 2014, at 4:40 PM, frank.dolinar at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> Perhaps, Microsoft is finally realizing how many developers it threw away when it killed FoxPro.   Though, I doubt even that would move it off square one.
> 
> From: "Tom McArthur" <ThomasMcA at live.com>
> To: "GLLUG Mailing List" <linux-user at egr.msu.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 2:47:03 PM
> Subject: [GLLUG] M$ opens up Visual Studio and .NET to EVERY Developer.
> 
> From M$:
> 
> Over the coming months, we will be open sourcing the full server-side .NET Core stack, from ASP.NET 5 down to the Core Runtime and Framework. And the open source .NET will be expanded to run on Linux and Mac OS X in addition to Windows. 
> 
> Learn more.
> 
> M$ never "gives in" to their competition, so I wonder what their motives are.
> 
> Tom
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