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I feel that the author just didn't try any other technologies.

> I found ASP.NET to be unmatched in terms of documentation

I find this hard to believe. Again I think the author knows his way around Microsoft products, and is biased towards it.

> Hiring quality coders on a bootstrapper’s budget is easier for ASP.NET than it is for anything open source. It just is.

I find this statement self-justifying and false. If a product is more scarce than others than it will probably be more expensive, in other words: if there is bigger competition there are lower prices.

The premise is true, no one cares about the server side technology expect maybe programmers who will have to build on that... wait what?

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> I found ASP.NET to be unmatched in terms of documentation

I find this hard to believe.

Why do you find it hard to believe? ASP.NET is really well documented. Is it absolutely the best documented product in the world, but it is reasonable that someone doing an investigation could reasonably believe that ASP.NET has the best documentation.

It's the choice of words, really. does it have good documentation, or thorough documentation?

The author's argument would be twice as compelling if he backed such a strong statement up, or toned it down a bit.

Unmatched? Mmmkay.

I find it hard to believe if the author does not back it up with a lot of research and statistics. If the author would have just said 'it has great documentation' I would have said nothing about it, but when the compares it with others, he should have something to back it up.

I think calling it "unmatched" is a bit strong, but generally I would say that the documentation of .Net is definitely one of its strong points.

.NET documentation is really good. I can't quantify it as being the best but there is so much training material out there.

Examples: Tons of free video tutorials: http://www.asp.net/web-forms http://www.asp.net/mvc http://www.mvcconf.com/

heaps of books http://www.asp.net/community/books http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...

then of course there is the Microsoft Developer Network http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/ff380144

with training courses/hands on labs http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/VS2010TrainingCourse_AspNetM...

plenty of people who can answer your questions on SO (C# and ASP.NET are a couple of the most popular tags) http://stackoverflow.com/tags

and msdn forums http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-au/categories

if you want to pay for training, there's plenty of that too, as .NET is used lots in the enterprise there is training centres and other paid services a plenty: http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/ http://learning.microsoft.com/manager/catalog.aspx?brand=msd...

additionally, they have a certification program with all the training materials and training courses for that http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/cert-v...

I realize that there is probably great documentation for other open source frameworks as well, but I can see that it's likely Microsoft will always have great documentation on the very latest versions of their tools as they pay people to make the documentation, whereas OSS frameworks are more likely to rely on people to write boring documentation in their spare time.

As others have mentioned, using the term "unmatched" might be a stretch. I really wouldn't know the state of documentation for something like, lets say Lisp or Clojure, and probably the author doesn't either. But it's not up for discussion that .NET has a very comprehensive, high quality level of documentation, just take a look at MSDN.

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