Originally Posted by TheAnimus
The biggest argument for not upgrading is, we've a network of x PCs all happily running version n.
This is a legitamte reason for not upgrading, hell often its easyer to buy obsolete kit just to end up supporting fewer hardware configurations.
No one is saying your moronic for not using it. Its more a case of the bad rep it has un-justly.
People often get into the 'cool' club of OS's. I had someone who obviously had never used mono + linux in anger, telling me we should use it. Without realising how much the app relies on inter thread communication. In mono on linux, this is piss poor performance compared to NT. The point is the twat was shooting his mouth of about it so i had to put him in his place a bit, he obviously had no idea or experiance about what he was telling my team should be doing. This is not something thats unique to IT, but there does seam to be an almost zelous habbit of loving and hating software.
out of curiosity, how does mono on windows deal with your use-case? i've found major differences in the overall behaviour of threads between the platforms, but i suspect it's more OS-related than framework-related