Is ASP.NET MVC a bad choice for a large enterprise project?

Question

We are about to embark on a large enterprise application. I am seriously considering using ASP.NET MVC because:

1. We need to use Microsoft technology (biz logic is

Answer 1

ASP.NET MVC is not a problem for Enterprise, but neither is ASP.NET, Silverlight, etc. They are all UI technologies. The majority of your application logic should exist in libraries beneath the UI layer anyway, so pretty much any UI can be used.

1. We need to use Microsoft technology
2. Performance is critical
3. I'd like to test as much as possible

Based on the above, ASP.NET MVC will work. But, you can move the code down below the UI and test. If your algorithms are below the UI, you can tune them without altering the UI. And, if the UI layer is very thin, the perf hit for the UI is negligible.