[fj39dkf]

People have rightly mentioned the cost and vendor lock-in issues. The other problem is that - for whatever reason - good engineers simply want nothing to do with the Microsoft ecosystem. In this market, they have other options. So tying your infrastructure to .NET means limiting your hiring pool to mostly 9-to-5er enterprise developers who tend to fix problems by asking Microsoft to sell them the solution. Not exactly the attitude you want at a startup.

[dmarlow]

"good engineers simply want nothing to do with the Microsoft ecosystem"

Seriously? I guess the whole swath of .NET developers aren't good engineers...

[whycombagator]

I thought it was universal knowledge that everyone involved/working with the Microsoft ecosystem was automatically a bad engineer?

Short list of awful engineers:

Jon Skeet, Marc Gravell, Darin Dimitrov, Gordon Linoff, Hans Passant, Schabse Laks, Nick Craver, Jared Par, Eric Lippert, Anders Hejlsberg, etc.

Good engineers also actively avoid using Stack Overflow - as it's based on Microsoft tech and good engineers want nothing to do with Microsoft.

[fj39dkf]

Yes, seriously.