YouSendIt appears to drop .NET and go LAMP

The trés cool YouSendIt service appears to be dropping support for .NET and going open-source. Specifically, its new beta service is LAMP-based and this MySQL job posting from last year appears to confirm the move.

The free, high-profile service -- if you haven't come across it before -- allows users to send files of any size via email. It stores the attachment(s) on its server (for about a week, I think) and sends the URL of the attachment(s) to the recipient. The recipient can then download them at his or her convenience. It's a simple, powerful idea. And apparently, they've decided against paying the Microsoft tarriffs in their new, enhanced version.

That's the same thing that occurred with Fellowship Church, one of the world's largest churches. After their LAMP consultants routinely beat their .NET team to market with features and innovative capabilities (and after a lot of introspection documented here), Fellowship decided to drop .NET and go LAMP.

A trend? Dunno, but interesting.