Re: [cinjug-users] Does corp. America still trust Java?

["Edward Sumerfield" <esumerfd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Initially I noticed the same thing  but there are lots of good reasons for 
it. Firstly, anyone that used to ask for ASP web site development is not 
asking for .Net development since its just a name change to most people. 
Lots of Access/Office style products are looking for a migration path to 
something more robust. They have always been there but not they are saying 
.Net.

I am a consultant and long time javaist but am now working my second .Net 
contract in 6 months. Both are small fat clients. One will be using a 
remoting server and database.

There are still lots of java projects out there. Most of the large scale 
stuff I see is still java. That is not to say that .Net will not catch up. I 
have no doubt that it will, it's better in some situations and in many 
others its worse so it can't kill java, just change the balance.

At the end of the day it just means that we have more ways to play with 
computers.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yevgeny A. Smolyansky" <yevgeny@xxxxxxx>
To: <users@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:27 PM
Subject: [cinjug-users] Does corp. America still trust Java?


> Cinjugers,
>
> Is it just me or others have been experiencing that as well?
>
> After being a classic Java development shop for over 6 years, delivering
> many successful projects and just doing a little bit of .Net on the way my
> company is being constantly asked for .Net related services anymore.
> Whether it is putting together a .Net Architecture or simple development,
> it is mostly on the MS side and barely ever on J2EE one. Our statistics is
> that on every 5-6 contacts about .Net we are lucky to hear once about
> J2EE. Is that a new trend, new fashion? Is MS slowly killing Java and
> corporate America does not trust Java anymore? What do we do with our
> years of investment in Java, the platform we all love?
>
> I am not sure why I even wrote it, just felt that way at the moment!
>
> Yevgeny A. Smolyansky
> President
> Bridge Information Technologies, LLC
> www.bridgeinfotech.com
> 513-348-0359