JAVA VS .NET ( JOB STATISTICS COMPARISON FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR )
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I don’t understand why IT depts would *pay* AND get locked into a proprietary technology when Java is open source and free and richer than anything MS could offer.
java’s for girls
Python.
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One primary reason for Microsoft products: Tools. Microsoft has Visual Studio. Install it in 10 minutes, Use it. Code. Install finished app. Use that. Simple.
Java? Down load this that and the other, take all day or week, and even then you won’t have what Visual Studio offers with all kinds of holes in the development setup. Then go try to get it running on something, spend all week configuring, downloading, configuring, downloading, open source product was never a company and the nerd no longer supports it so go find and integrate an alternate, pull hair out, repeat.
Neither, please.
I'm just looking into Novell Mono, but it seems like the right idea. Microsoft offers great development tools for an inadequate platform, Java offers inadequate development tools for robust platforms. Something's got to give.
I’ve programmed with both Java and .net,.....I’ll take .net any day.
And nobody yet has mentioned the third option, LAMP.
We are looking at using Drupal to implement our corporate website, which is based on the LAMP architecture, using PHP. We looked at SharePoint, but with the costs, we just couldn’t justify it over going with a LAMP-based solution, like Drupal.