netduino vs. arduino

I've been messing with arduino for a few months now, building a temperature controller for a glass kiln. I work in IT (I'm a network admin, not a programmer...but got a couple arduino books and figuring it out) A programmer friend of mine knows I am into arduino and sent me the link to netduino. I noticed right away it was a different chip, and further digging proved it was a 32 bit risc chip instead of a little 8 bit atmel. I guess you would have to have that to code in .net...right? anyway, what can you do with a .netduino that you can't do with an arduino? Or what can you do better with a netduino than you can with an arduino. Just curious if I should switch. I'm not that far into the project, and I know a little .net. If netduino offers advantages I will switch. thanks.

The netmf (used by the Netduino) is better suited for complex applications. It's 'threaded' among others. Which gives a very different kind of coding. And the tools (eg. IDE and others) are much better (and many years olders) than the Arduino. Arduino however is better suited for low level applications, since netmf is non deterministic and not yet as experienced as Arduino.