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Re: Ask HN: Will my target audience reject a .net solution?

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Two thoughts: 1) The money they spend on a windows server to run your application on is money out of your pocket. 2) If you will support plugins like wordpress, trac, etc, you'll have an easier time creating a plugin ecosystem with open source tools. Then again, I'm biased since I work in a linux/java/ruby shop. I'm assuming that you plan to have your customers install the application. If your target customers are th…

I failed to mention that my application will also be delivered as a service, not installed on my customer's systems.

Re: Ask HN: Will my target audience reject a .net solution?

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I think that customers are going to focus on the "fit and finish" of your product, not what platform it's running on. If you write it in ASP.NET, most Microsoft-based businesses will be able to run it, as well as any non-Microsoft-based businesses that use Mono. Just make sure to test your app on both Windows Server and a couple of flavors of Linux/Mono, and each of those combined with the major database vendors (MSS…

I failed to mention that my application will also be delivered as a service, not installed on my customer's systems.
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