[gesman]

Single vendor driven solution for all stacks (at least with Microsoft being the vendor) is more scaleable and easier to manage and support than shuffling multitude of open source fragments and solutions all over the enterprise.

If it's not a mom-n-pop shop trying to save pennies and dimes - it makes sense from CTO standpoint.

[stop_themadness]

I've read multiple articles here describing single stack solutions as being a pipe dream. In the rare cases where they were successful, you need majority company buy-in. This is clearly not the case here, where this ramming-in of .NET and VS and Windows servers are causing massive fractures with our senior devs. Many are now resorting to doing P.O.Cs to show we are just fine without the Microsoft products.

Additionally, this actually harms our recruiting efforts, because the majority of senior C# devs are accounted for in this town, as they work for the larger 3 corps in the city's downtown district.

[jklein11]

It might be easier to configure, but aren't you giving an awfully lot of leverage to that one vendor?