Why .NET?

Listeners of the world,

By now you know that Ourtown is being completely redesigned from the ground up. One of the important factors in the new site is a new technology called .NET. The old Ourtown was build on classic ASP an old Microsoft technology for creating web applications. So, why use .NET?

First, .NET is new and it is here now. Since Ourtown is being rebuilt we thought it best to use the newest technology available to us. .NET has gone through several iterations and is a solid framework proven to build web applications. With a newer technology comes not only better security but also better speed and optimization. With the web today it is more important than ever to take into account security.

Second, .NET is built for the future. This means that we will be able to more easily implement newer technologies that are built for .NET and are supported by Microsoft. With the old system we had outdated code that was not supported and did not have as much of a growing code base.

Finally, .NET allows us to program faster. This means we can build better architecture for Ourtown so we can get things done a lot faster than the old system. Who doesn't want faster updates?

Your tech wizard,
Michael