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Re: Looking For Direction

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In article <k2dQn.6548$z%6.2043@edtnps83>, dcest61@hotmail.com says...
> 
> David Kerber wrote:
> > In article <4c1033b3$0$278$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, arne@vajhoej.dk 
> > says...
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> >> Given that he has Java, JDBC and Oracle experience then he should
> >> have at least some advantages going Java instead of .NET.
> > 
> > Not to mention that those are all cross-platform options. while .NET 
> > locks you into a windows-based network.
> 
> The way Mono is moving along that's not strictly speaking true. In any 
> case, being "locked into" a Windows-based network is not exactly a 
> liability, not now and not for a few more decades. As it is, the 
> majority of fellow developers and clients that I deal with do J2SE/J2EE 
> on Windows. Every job I've had there's always been a fair bit - often a 
> majority - of other applications that have been on Windows. So it may be 
> a point of pride that your app in theory could run on many OS's, but 
> since almost everyone will have Windows who really cares?

This is certainly true on the front (end-user) end, but much less so on 
the server side.  Windows still makes up only a minority of the servers 
out there.

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