A short survey on your programming language preferences, shouldn't take more than 1 minute of your time. Please participate and let others know too.
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Now you can easily convert your .NET applications to Java / J2EE and run it on Linux or other Java enabled platforms directly from your Visual Studio .NET IDE.

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According to TIOBE Programming Community Index Java is the leading programming language again, ahead of C and C++, its nearest rivals.

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According to Forrester survey data and analysis, Java's 66% penetration is the highest among strategic programming languages for enterprise applications. Visual Basic 6 (VB6) and C/C++ have nearly as much penetration as Java, but VB6 is past mainstream support and C/C++ has a comparatively limited ecosystem.
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This guide is based on years of observations after using thousands of applications, both commercial and open source. Some of the references are to windows based applications. However the principles are universally applicable.
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Hundreds of influential Visual Basic developers (recognized by Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional program) have signed a petition demanding Microsoft should continue supporting Visual Basic (classic) as it is doing for C++.
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I personally find the article by Richard Grimes on the state of .NET technologies very informative. It is comical to note some of the rants against him in the post and in the comments at http://weblogs.asp.net/danielfe/archive/2005/02/22/378343.aspx

Some of it are plain hilarious like:

And really, let's face it, every programming language has a problem. Yes, .Net isn't the best, compared to the others, but it is pretty good, as in easy application development. Still, it's coming up.
For me, I hate Java, and that's my opinion. Unfortunately, it has a lot of technical advantage compared to .Net, so I MUST use it. I dreadful fate.

Some comments on his encrypting the email, and so he not a believable guy! It however never occured to him when he was writing those incredible articles and book on .NET technologies.

I really pity these guys.
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I was quoted in ComputerWeekly article titled "C# goes head to head with Java" from my article on our .Net experience.

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A wedding in hell?

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To day while going through javablogs, I came across an interesting article on .NET side of story from an ex-java (?) junkie - I miss Java already.. :: http://www.vibhu.info :: Be different...

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