Java Vs .NET

[fixthebug2003]

Hi ALL,
Now that .Net has been in the market for a while..I just wanted to know which on is doing better - Java or .Net or Both from the job opportunities perspective..!!

Fixthebug2003

 

[Dimandja]

Java already has a niche on Internet. And unless MS does something stupid, they are going to reclaim much of that niche.

As for MS doing something stupid, I meant extraordinarily stupid; because they do ordinarily stupid things everyday and get away with it -- such as releasing patches that will destroy all your existing applications.

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[jwenting]

Java has more than a niche...
For serverside (especially distributed and otherwose networked) applications Java has just about taken the corporate market for its own.

Clientside Java is weaker mainly because of the old perception (which was at one point largely correct) that Java is slow (not anymore, but the perception remains).

 

[arthurliz]

Note that right around the first of January 2005, eBay a very big user of .net announced it was dropping the .net.

So what does that tell you

 

[RiverGuy]

What does/did eBay use .Net for?

 

[Dimandja]

>So what does that tell you

That EBay could not use .NET? That EBAY did not have the expertise for .NET?

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[fixthebug2003]

Sounds like Java is a clear winner.I have attended a couple of inteviews around 8 months back...and the company was moving away from MS to Java for the Server Side...
And I have never heared anybody moving from Java to .net so far..has anybody?

Fixthebug2003

 

[dilettante]

I'm not taking a position, and the source is clearly biased, but...

The State of Technology Adoption

 

[dilettante]

An oldie, but the press loves to "thrill" (excite?) its audience: Will .Net take down Java in 2002?.

More recent: Is .Net Stealing Java's Thunder?.

Also: News: J2EE Adoption Hamperd by Complexity.

Hmm... Was .NET a black hole project?

All I can conclude from a casual Google search is that "I have never heared anybody moving from Java to .net so far..has anybody?" may be a little off the mark.

Yet again, I'm not taking a position. I don't use either one extensively.