Our IssueTrak software is built on Microsoft technologies — SQL Server, IIS, ASP. Their technology is good, and widely adopted. Will it stay that way in the future?
One way to judge that is to look at the people involved. Microsoft has one of the most impressive technology executives around — Scott Guthrie.
He is a prolific blogger. Although he only posts two or three blog entries a week, each blog post is quite comprehensive, with lots of code examples. Not only that, but there are a LOT of people who respond to his blog posts. The post he did last week discussing VS 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta had over 350 comments from readers. Many of these comments are questions, and Scott tries to answer the questions. If he doesn’t have a ready answer, he’ll leave his email address and ask the commenter to send him an email with more details about the issue. Scott then forwards the inquiry on to the appropriate person.
So although he may only post two new blog entries in a week, with the replies to comments that he writes, he probably posts dozens of entries.
Scott started out at Microsoft as a developer on IIS in 1996. He was instrumental in formulating the concept of ASP.NET after IIS4 was released. Today he is a Corporate Vice President in the Microsoft Developer Division, and runs the development teams involved in:
The .NET Common Language Runtime
Core .NET Base Class Libraries
IIS 7.0
ASP.NET
Silverlight
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Visual Studio Tools for ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight
I have attended conferences where Scott has made presentations. He is a hands-on guy and knows the products intimately. His presentations often have demonstrations of the technology he is discussing, where he develops live applications on the spot. He is sharp, down-to-earth, and genuinely cares about coming out with useful tools that allow developers like us to come out with great products.
I have emailed him questions, and he has replied promptly to me with useful information. There are videos of Scott explaining how they invite developers who don’t use Microsoft products to come to Redmond. Scott’s crew takes them out for beer and dinner and listens to their reasons for not using Microsoft technologies. This feedback helps shape the developer products Scott’s teams come out with.
We hear sometimes about Microsoft being the Evil Empire. With people like Scott Guthrie on board, it is hard to look at Microsof that way. I feel like I know him, and I trust him. He has a rare combination of brains, work ethic, humility, and willingness to listen to and interact with customers.
Who wants to go Open Source when there are great developer technologies guided by someone as good as Scott, and backed by Microsoft support (which is worth a blog post itself)?
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