Critics accuse Microsoft of splintered development for .NET framework

3/23/2010 4:07 PM

Microsoft's ubiquitous .NET framework is one of the basic building blocks of enterprise IT, and .NET training is a valuable thing for IT professionals. Nevertheless, some say that the computing giant has done a poor job getting its development teams to interact with each other for the improvement of the product, according to the Software Development Times.

Novell's Miguel de Icaza said in an interview with the SD Times that "there is no cross platform culture within the company," which leads to fragmentation and disharmony among the various teams.

Others agreed with de Icaza's diagnosis, including Gartner Research vice president Mark Driver, who told the SD Times that the company's .NET framework offerings cannot target both Visual Basic users and high-end developers with the same product, given the massive differences in skill level. Nevertheless, the company's current strategy appears to do exactly that.

The supposed dysfunction in Microsoft's .NET team is balanced by the apparent harmony among its SharePoint developers, who have successfully integrated a number of new features into the product.

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