---
title: Who's Afraid of the Big .Net? - Servoy
description: Famous IT-journalist Robert X. Cringely blogs about Servoy The ability to create (and maintain) a single code base for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Unix
---

[Content ](https://servoy.com/content)

# [Who's Afraid of the Big .Net? - Servoy](https://servoy.com/content/whos-afraid-of-the-big-net)

 Written by [Ron van der Burg](https://servoy.com/content/author/ron-van-der-burg) | Aug 2, 2008 7:23:19 PM

Famous IT-journalist Robert X. Cringely [blogs ](http://weblog.infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archives/2008/08/whos_afraid_of_1.html)about Servoy

> The ability to create (and maintain) a single code base for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Unix desktops, as well as a variety of browsers, could save software geeks oodles of time and money. Servoy claims its customers can develop Web apps many times faster than by using Microsoft’s .Net, and for a fraction of the cost.

[View full post](https://servoy.com/content/whos-afraid-of-the-big-net)

```json
{
  "@context" : "http://schema.org",
  "@type" : "BlogPosting",
  "author" : {
    "@type" : "Person",
    "name" : "Ron van der Burg"
  },
  "dateModified" : "2023-08-18T12:40:25.427Z",
  "datePublished" : "2008-08-02T19:23:19Z",
  "headline" : "Who’s Afraid of the Big .Net?",
  "image" : {
    "@type" : "ImageObject",
    "height" : 3508,
    "url" : "https://21341454.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/21341454/blog-servoy-random-imgaes/software-engineers-working-on-project-and-programm-2021-08-26-17-31-39-utc-min.jpg",
    "width" : 5263
  },
  "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://servoy.com/content/whos-afraid-of-the-big-net",
  "publisher" : {
    "@type" : "Organization",
    "logo" : {
      "@type" : "ImageObject",
      "height" : 60,
      "url" : "/hs/hsstatic/content_shared_assets/static-1.4092/img/default-amp-logo.png",
      "width" : 60
    },
    "name" : "Content"
  }
}
```