the ‘bee log

Mike Schinkel has posted an agreeable piece of malcontentedness about IIS 7 possibly being “Too Little, Too Late“.

I started posting a comment to this, but, having just attended a presentation on Amazon Web Services, I felt a larger steam rising with head-bobbing-in-agreement given some of my previous posts on the subject of infrastructure and virtualization.

I’m excited about IIS 7, though I’m with Mike in disappointment on the declining market share. That means your bag-of-tricks, .NET Developer, are just that much less applicable, portable, and — what really matters to those who love what they do – handy.

It’s a major bummer that there’s no such thing as a virtualized “.NET Application Container” for the new scalable grid computing and provisioning services coming out (Amazon EC2, MediaTemple’s Grid-Server). Essentially .NET programmers can’t easily take advantage of new long tail models with easily-sourced infrastructure services. Going out on a limb, I’d suggest these limitations contribute to a lot of top/entrepreneurial developer talent moving over to various flavors of the LAMP stack, Ruby, etc.