.NET Continues Its Quest for Complete World Domination

'Philip Brittan, chairman of Java start-up Droplets, said .Net poses a "dire threat" to Java.

".Net has a real strong chance to be the new standard for writing applications on the desktop and with (server-based) Web applications. Microsoft is positioned extremely well and it will take deft movement (on the part of Java software makers) to turn them away," said Brittan. "Sun understands Microsoft's strategy very well but they haven't been able to execute, and Microsoft has been able to blunt their attacks pretty effectively." ' - [via News.com]

How do you know when you've won? When the company that you are trying to be better than starts copying you.

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  • "How do you know when you've won? When the company that you are trying to be better than starts copying you."



    That couldn't be true or we could have concluded Java as the winner a long time ago.

  • I would agree, but .NET is not a copy of Java. Microsoft has always been about being simple for developers. It took MS kicking their butt at the powerful stuff for Sun to start going after simplicity.

  • The problem for Microsoft is that 90% of the world's population is looking for an alternative to Windows, primarily because they can't afford it or don't want to buy it. That means unless Microsoft makes Windows very affordable and attractive to the world outside the US borders, .NET will die (not literally, but it will not thrive, which for a proprietary development platform like .NET is market death) because those billions of people that will be running Lindows or whatever are all consumers, and a developer using .NET automatically will lose many potential customers.



    While that doesn't mean much to the US VB.net developer getting paid $100k to write Windows apps to integrate Excel and SQL Server yet again, it makes a huge difference to the developers making $3k or $10k a year elsewhere in the world selling their software and services for a fraction of what we think of as "the sustenance level".



    I don't know if Java (maybe) or Mono (doubtful) or what will be the solution of choice. Hopefully something better than either, and probably not a step backwards into the proprietary-land that .NET represents.



    Peace.

  • In this game, as soon as someone says the've won, they've lost.



    You just can't stop... ever.

  • Agreed, Ray. And MS is not stopping. You should see Whidbey, Longhorn, and Yukon.

  • I hope i get to see them soon! I should know soon enough.



  • Any figures of .NET adoption in the corporate world? Just curious.

  • I can find out. I saw some at one point when they were talking about Windows Server 2003 adoption.

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