- AnalogWeapon
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In an old thread, Achronos said:
As for our business relationship [with Ideal Science], that started during the planning for the conversion from the old perl based bungie.net to one to support Halo 2. After a few experiments, I had decided that we should simply start over, and build on the much more robust .NET framework. Unfortunately, at the time, we only had one web dev (me), and there was simply no way we could finish everything in time. You may remember that we actually didn't port the groups over until a few months after the rest of the site became part of the new hotness. Anyway, we decided that high-capacity forum software is a solved problem that other companies are very good at, so we started soliciting quotes from various companies (Ideal Science included) for software that would meet our needs. In our case, those needs were full source code, many multiple forums, highly scalable, high performance, and use SQL Server and ASP.NET as its core technology. So does that mean the old site was coded completely with Perl? If that's so, I have a lot more respect for that old site than i did before (Or at least Achronos' skillz/patience). Also, I always guessed the decision to move to ASP.NET was based on the potential for easier interoperability between Xbox live systems, or that it had something to do with Microsoft getting cozy with Bungie... Why didn't you want to connect to Xbox Live/Microsoft, and work with games stats using Perl, Achronos? (Just kidding. haha)
I guess I'm just musing and seeing if any of you who have been aroun longer than me have any thoughts on this stuff. Just curious. :)
[Edited on 06.19.2007 11:22 AM PDT]