How many people really know about pascal, ruby on rails, php? to develop a web application.

But I can find a hand full of people who can work with asp.net, Partially trained or good programmers doesnt matter but I can find them easily when compared with other above technologies.

Obviously, if less resources then the demand is higher and eventually the pay must be higher but in the case of ASP.Net that is not an problem.

Well, Purely my assumption.. Correct me if am wrong..

V is always up for criticismmmmmm

V

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Sun Startup essentials program consists of:
Discounted servers
Discounts on storage
Open source software
Discounted partner hosting
Free technical advice and training
Co-marketing opportunities
”

The most important thing here is last point on “Co-marketing” opportunities. I cnt think of too much benefit due to disocunts on servers and storages unless the start up itself is in serious hosting business.

Rajs
http://blog.thoughtsinprogress.co.in

Many of the utility Web 2.0 companies are excellent at what they do. Look at 37Signals for example. Startups benefiting from the ecosystem of new companies who are usually much cheaper and equally effective at something if it’s got a Web 2.0 analogue.

Crush the big players … I say, and with them their overpriced, unfriendly, unwieldy and baroque products that only large enterprises are able to afford and dumb enough to buy. “TCO” in enterprise software is an elusive measure because you’ll never know what would have happened if you didn’t buy… so it’s just marketing propaganda in the end. I’ve bought enough of that stuff myself to know…. Read More

What matters is that it’s fast and cheap to set up, does the job well and reliably, has no learning curve, and no long-term commitments.

I would say use open source in situations where you need to customize heavily, and are prepared to participate in open-source (and give back in the form of fixes, features, and feedback). It’s hard to do but we have to try.

It’s hard for me to fathom my company valuating hugely on open-source foundations, without giving back. I used to do a … Read Morelot of open-source OS work, and that was a good enough excuse for a while… but this year I need to pull up my socks and figure out where my company can reciprocate.

I like building things with the best tools and for me, those tools are the free software ones

Thats exactly my point, the first preference is given to the tools that we are familiar with. Are they opensource or properietry is secondary, at least in early age startups.

Also, the express editions of .NET family have started gaining some traction recently which is actually good. Competition don’t hurt the end users.

There’s another benefit. I spend 0 of my time and money worrying about licensing, licensing servers, and if I don’t like something, I just uninstall. No contract to back out of or product that needs to be returned.

You don’t have a couple of months to learn a new technology before shaping your ideas.

MAPS provides 10 licenses of Windows and many of their other popular apps for less than $400.

If startups cannot afford this, I really wonder!