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Re: Ask HN: Would a .Net back-end put off potential acquisitors?

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Post by bnjs » Thu, Aug 14, 2014, 7:52 PM UTC

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #51

joshuaellinger wrote: post #42

Don't worry about suitors - worry about hiring people. Team matters much more than Tech. But, as perspective, MS Dev tools cost about $10K per dev + $3K per year per dev after the first. Engineers costs $100K+ per year. +10% productivity covers the tools. If it costs you a month to retool or saves you a little on salary or lets you hire a little easier, you have paid for the tools. So what matters are things where yo…

Still salary is paid out over time. Tools cost up-front. In a lean startup that could sink you?

>lean startup

You mean a bootstrapped startup?

http://steveblank.com/2009/11/02/lean-startups-aren%E2%80%99... http://practicetrumpstheory.com/2010/03/bootstrapping-a-lean...

Re: Ask HN: Would a .Net back-end put off potential acquisitors?

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Post by walljm » Fri, Aug 15, 2014, 3:05 AM UTC

zaphar wrote: post #50

allegory wrote: post #18

I've been in this situation a couple of times before. It won't make a blind bit of difference initially but if you expand, so will tooling and deployment costs and investors don't like that. Anything that takes off the bottom line is a problem. Microsoft licensing, particularly dev tools and SQL is incredibly expensive and an order of magnitude more expensive on deployment and diagnostic time than anything else. We'r…

I work on a .Net stack now and we are slowly moving over to Mono with Open Source alternatives to the MS specific stuff. Not because of investment fear but because the MS stack is both expensive and sub par. Most of the world has moved past them and there are much better options out there. C# is a wonderful language but the MS tooling needs a lot more work to get on par with what else is available. Especially the bui…

In our specific case, thought the expense is nice, it doesn't really matter. Security, on the other hand, is the driving reason we're migrating away from Windows.

Re: Ask HN: Would a .Net back-end put off potential acquisitors?

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Post by locusm » Sun, Aug 17, 2014, 1:56 PM UTC

jwynia wrote: post #89

locusm wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to comment on your .Net/pgsql experience?

I just finished a project with ASP.NET MVC over PostgreSQL via NHibernate. Worked great. Just out of curiosity, I actually even set it up so I could change it over to SQL Server with a config change. While it was a small and relatively uncomplicated data model (20 tables or so), it encouraged me to consider doing this combo more often. This project is hosted on AWS with AWS RDS for pgsql. Made it easy to use the basi…

Thanks for replying, been meaning to use ServiceStack/pgsql on a side project...