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lashley
Starting Member
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 Posted - 27 February 2009 : 04:08:44
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Hi,
Someone told me: "Snitz, since it is powered by asp will be obsolete soon."
So this means soon Snitz forms will be closed? May I have your thoughts on this one?
Thanks, I just installed the forum on my website and I don't want to promote it, if it's going to become obsolete like someone said.
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MarcelG
Retired Support Moderator
Netherlands
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Posted - 27 February 2009 : 05:47:33
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The current version of Snitz is a so-called 'Classic ASP' application.
The .NET version of Snitz is being developed at this moment, and will (most likely) be the new version, however the current version will be usable as long as there are webhosting companies offering Classic ASP.
In Windows 2008 Server, Microsoft has still provided support for Classic ASP in IIS, next to .NET etc.
Windows 2008 will be here until at least 2011, perhaps even longer.
Whether or not Windows 7 Server or any other successor to Windows Server 2008 will be supporting Classic ASP is not clear at this moment, however the fact that there are huge (and with huge I mean really huge) numbers of business applications running in Classic ASP will force Microsoft to provide backwards compatibility.
That being said, I think that the current version of Snitz will not be obsolete within the next 5 years.
Yes, there may be better/faster/fancier alternatives out there, and yes there will be a .NET version of Snitz, but that does not make Snitz in it's current form obsolete.
So, go ahead and promote your site.< |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
26364 Posts |
Posted - 27 February 2009 : 05:56:35
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| ASP will be here for quite a long time, as a supported platform. Of course, ASP is not the technology of choice for web development and it hasn't been for a while. I don't think Snitz will be closed, no. We will be here, providing the support we have been providing for the last few years.< |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 27 February 2009 : 07:12:40
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Classic ASP is actually very much alive. It will ship again with Windows Vista and Windows Longhorn Server – so will be supported at least 10 years from that ship date. - ScottGu
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Asp.DLL is part of VISTA so the runtime will continue to be supported based on the Vista support lifecycle.
All classic ASP development tools (i.e., Visual Interdev) are now in their extended support period and we will not be updating tools for classic ASP.
To get the best tooling/platform option ASP.NET is the way to go. - RichE
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