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To: CLRGuy
I know of several others, but because of my position and the company I work for it would be imprudent, and unprofessional in the fourum to mention them by name.

Actually, a developer would be encouraged to share their opinions and experiences with new technologies, especially one like this that is trying to gain acceptance.

I talk openly here about the projects I work on, and give as much detail as you'd like. My company loves that, in that it means I'm out here learning 'best practices' and exchanging and gaining knowledge. All the developers I know are the same. We *talk* about what we build.

In my experience, only a salesman would claim to know about great things they won't talk about.

And -- I thought that the 'WinForms' I read about didn't run in the browser, but had to be downloaded to the client and ran locally as a local application. Very, very different technology, more akin to a java application without the 'Java Web Start'. Am I mistaken?

56 posted on 06/24/2002 1:12:30 PM PDT by Dominic Harr
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To: Dominic Harr
"Actually, a developer would be encouraged to share their opinions and experiences with new technologies, especially one like this that is trying to gain acceptance. "

Harr, you are sounding like a total computer geek and not a consultant. Building apps is far more about the business and not the technologies. Such things as confidentiality are seriously important. Part of that is not publicly disclosing information. Doing so may jeopardize your market position by letting your competitors know what you doing such that they may also do it. Also, clients may not appreciate your public relationship with them. Some companies prefer to have people believe that they are completely responsible for their computer systems. Discretion is paramount. You asking for confidential information is tantamount to journalists asking the Defense Department for the secret war plans and complaining when they don’t get it. Any company than can release large project information does in the form of a press release, in corporate press packet, or through the various corporate communications mediums; all of which are publicly available and usually on the company’s web site. Again, you really need to do your own research; it is an easy thing to do.

95 posted on 06/24/2002 3:59:09 PM PDT by PatrioticAmerican
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