Hi Dorin,
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So, I believe that MSFT will try to kill this trend (kill LAMP - Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP) and to promote smart clients + web services approach. Will it succed ? I don't know.imo, there is no way that anybody, including MS, could "kill" the LAMP trend. More websites run on Apache than any other server, and the other 3 technologies are simply huge and growing. And in any case, smart clients / web services run equally well when combined with LAMP technologies.
Later!
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.