.NET

Allowed for rapid application development in most cases

Reduced costs because it is free to use

Allowed conforming infrastructure as all apps built with it

Lots of developers to work.

Expensive hosting.

Troublesome implementation.

We could've used .NET or Java and easily achieved the same outcomes, so the impact it had is not due to .NET being different from other similar options, but rather that it is what we selected to get the job done

We used .NET to build secure internet facing web-based applications in the early 2000s with success in that the applications were not hacked or presenting gaping vulnerabilities to the open internet, but failed in that we developed in house frameworks that aped Microsofts own "best-practices" which were to over-complicate everything to the point where we achieved poor outcomes for our development team and users

.NET did the job it was hired to do, that is to let us build and run a line of business data entry applications

Reduced time to release

Reduced maintenance time

Increased revenue

.NET has allowed us to handle many projects for our clients, over the years.

IntelySense gives suggestions as you type, making it quicker and avoiding typing mistakes.

It gives very good explanations for debugging.

It allows testing within the actual programming environment.

It has helped us create great projects. At first it does seem expensive but it has an extensive range of uses.

Less time in developing

Robustness

Negative is to be "bound" to a supplier

Quick development time

Maintainable solutions

Cloud integration

Rebuilt an application originally written in C++, took 1/4 of the time to do it in .NET

Rapid Development

Minimal Learning Curve

Support from Microsoft

High performance code

Easy to manage project solutions

Auto generated code support

Familiar language

Reduced project cost, as we are able to reuse many code blocks between projects.

Reduced operational cost, as our interns and new juniors are able to pick it up fast and be part of our development team in no time.

.NET developers spend more time building business features rather than low-level development. This helps get more from developers when compared to traditional Java development.

Recently, the cost of .NET development via visual studio subscriptions has been reduced but there are free options for development available. This makes it comparable to Java development starting costs.

Since .NET core apps can now run in Linux, this should shorten ROI if transitioning from Java to .NET.

We are slowly switching from a dying programming language to .NET because it was too expensive to hire developers for the old programming language. There are way more .NET developers around and an amazing community which has allowed us to keep our costs low.

Our development time has been greatly reduced because now we're not developing applications for each OS platform. We do it once and deploy accordingly.

.NET Core has been a big mindshift in terms of how to program. The learning curve has been quite high for existing .NET developers.

Positive: Provides the ability to quickly develop and deploy solutions

Positive: Easy to maintain - there is a lot of samples, documentation, and use cases over the internet.

Positive: The number of capable developers increase each day

Our financial practices became more reliable.

Our applications are easily accessible.

We have built very simple applications to vastly complex on the same toolsets.

Every hour we have spent on the product we usually get back in measurable lines of code.

Microsoft .NET has allowed us to utilize and leverage an existing technology without having any extra dollar spend

Microsoft .NET is very popular and makes it much easier to find quality developers who can build Microsoft .NET applications

Microsoft .NET allows you to integrate everything form older systems to newer systems

Extremely positive - can no longer imagine coding without it.

Robust framework that saves untold man hours of coding.

Learning one language makes it a lot easier to become proficient at a lot of tasks.

Microsoft has helped by releasing helpful additions such as MVC, Xamarin and Service Fabric. This allows reusing existing knowledge.

Visual studio is the best IDE ever which is a natural choice for .NET development.

There are few factors we needed for our custom development. Below are each of them. We were able to get a satisfactory outcome for each of these factors which made .NET platform a very good choice in developing enterprise applications.

Reusability of codes- Microsoft has given many re-usable codes and components in the framework to help developers do their job effortlessly. With the help of default features, developers can create end-to-end solutions and make the business operations more efficient. As codes and components are reusable, .NET reduces development time and if applications take less time to develop, they cost cheaper and you get faster return on investment.

Easy to maintain- Development cost is one time, but maintenance cost is incurring. .NET apps are easily maintainable, thanks to the configuration settings that can be modified without any need to rewrite the code.

Deployment is hassle free- Deploying software is always challenging and the most common problem developers face in this process is the existence of multiple DLLs. It’s hard to make sure that all DLLs will co-exist in the same machine. .NET framework solves this problem by allowing different versions of the same DLL to exist side-by-side on the same machine.

Security- .NET is one of the most secure web and application development frameworks available in the market. As it’s made by Microsoft, you can be absolutely sure about the security measurements. Hackers can never steal valuable data from your website or apps.

Cross platform friendly- What if you had developed an app for desktop and laptop computers and now after seeing the growth of mobile apps in the market, you want it in mobile version as well? You can easily develop an app that runs on the desktop and PDA without any issue. As you can re-use the codes and utilize the same development environment, your job becomes a lot simpler.

Migration and support cost is really high. So it is a little bit on the expensive side.

Portability, scalability, and security are really robust . It is good for the long run.

Need to follow the proper design guidelines, and architecture to get the maximum ROI.

Saved us time from having to evaluate many different Java libraries which did not integrate well or had questionable support lifetimes.

Saved us from having to track down CLASSPATH issues.

Saved us from servers crashing due to lack of PermGen space.

.NET is free.

Faster development cycles.

Better code with less vulnerabilities.