MG Siegler - can you please confirm you have NO vested interested in Groupon?  _IF_ Groupon was interested in competing, then WHY have they taken so much off the table?  Why has the CFO AND COO left right before the IPO?  This deal stinks and I am asking for the SEC to look into it NOW.

parislemon:

While I have an account, I’ve never actually used Groupon. And I may never use Groupon. It’s just not really my thing. But the massive backlash following the company’s S-1 filing (so they can IPO) strikes me as a bit odd. 

The fast rising consensus now in certain tech circles is that Groupon is essentially a Ponzi scheme (Grouponzi, FTW). The fact that their net income is well underwater (and going deeper) has everyone freaking out. As does the fact that some of the original investors (as well as founders) took hundreds of millions off the table in the last huge round.

But I’m more with Joe Stump on this. You cannot overlook the fact that they’re also making hundreds of millions of dollars each quarter now. The run-rate for this year could be over $3 billion.

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Microsoft wanted to respond to “fast development” from competitors using MVC frameworks such as Ruby On Rails, so they created their own version of MVC.

This is a nice method to “get down to the metal” - that is, to stop dealing with abstractions and just write code - so you know EXACTLY what you want.  This is very powerful, but does tend to make some TAG soup. You know, like back in old ASP (not .Net) where you wrote apps using “<% = varaible >”

While MVC is very powerful, it is also very new.  If you want an OpenID provider, you gotta write it yourself.  If you want an eCommerce store, or forum, or RSS syndication, or … - you have to write it yourself.  The benefit is that you get EXACTLY what you want.

However, if you want a framework with over EIGHT years of expereince, HUNDEREDS of modules, THOUSANDS of code examples, and MILLIONS of websites using the technology - then stick with DotNetNuke.  ‘nuf Said.