Bay Area .Net Devs - Stigma on .Net
peripatetic: I work for a startup in sv.  successful. we are all linux, python, ruby. we are building our infrastructure from the bottom up, (no previous decisions we are locked into).  The idea of doing _anything_ with microsoft is just completely alien... its like another world that is just not relevant to us.  could you imagine if we were discussing a new service and one of our engineers said "lets buy a win server 2008 license and an IIS license and check that out" ha.  lol. "and if we have any questions we'll just pull up some stuff on the microsoft knowledge center or msdevnet to figure out how to use it."  LOL!!(feeling is similar towards java, but java people are seen as more redeemable.  but if you worked on java at HP, you are pretty much lost to us.)