Quote: "13. As the MVC project is very much a reactionary response to staunch the outflow of devs to other MVC frameworks, there is a worry that MS will drop the project if forced to make a cost cutting decision (see licensing comment 6). They are certainly not going to drop normal ASP.NET."
This is baseless speculation. MVC is now one of the core parts of the ASP.NET stack (Webforms, MVC, Dynamic Data) and it isn't going anywhere. I was at MIX this past week and met most of the MVC team. They get it. MS has stated a commitment to developing both Webforms and MVC going forward.
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Quote: "13. As the MVC project is very much a reactionary response to staunch the outflow of devs to other MVC frameworks, there is a worry that MS will drop the project if forced to make a cost cutting decision (see licensing comment 6). They are certainly not going to drop normal ASP.NET."
This is baseless speculation. MVC is now one of the core parts of the ASP.NET stack (Webforms, MVC, Dynamic Data) and it isn't going anywhere. I was at MIX this past week and met most of the MVC team. They get it. MS has stated a commitment to developing both Webforms and MVC going forward.