Microsoft’s perceived lack of clarity in the roadmap (.NET Standard, .NET Core, .NET Framework, etc) and history of killing off or deprecating frameworks (Silverlight, Winforms, should I use WPF or UWP?) are a couple more reasons why startups don’t turn to .NET. Add what others have mentioned, the closed source and history of high cost, the lack of ecosystem, and the long history of being actively against open source and copyleft licenses, and Microsoft just doesn’t look like a startup choice. Microsoft was also relatively late as a cloud computing choice. Maybe something will emerge from their Bizspark program and their open source efforts to change their perceived position.

I didn’t include PHP because there were a lot of startups that had nothing but PHP and Apache Server. That’s partly why I looked at 100 startups and ended up with 23. Startups with just PHP are probably e-commerce websites or non-software at all.

I wonder if this is reasonable to exclude PHP? I could see the point of excluding it because there’s a Wordpress blog hanging off the domain or if, as the author states, an e-commerce startup kicked things off with Magento or the like. On the other hand, is PHP just being excluded because, well, PHP?

His latest research, set to be published on May 17

So… was it published?