of course, as usual, MS is late to the game

Ruby on Rails has been around for years now
and other languages have gained similar frameworks

Christ, the IT guys at the BBC released a "Perl on Rails" thing 18 months ago
http://developers.slashdot.org/artic...20221&from=rss

Like most things MS, I'm sure it was created with the best of intentions by intelligent, hard working engineers
but in order to gain any traction this late in, they'll have to use underhanded tactics to lock people in, or it'll bomb