[antiRepublicrat]

It is light years beyond Java.

In some ways it's better. In others I miss Java. But in general, I do like programming in .NET with C# -- that's what I do for a living.

[StJacques]

"In some ways it's better. In others I miss Java. . . ."

And I do quite a bit of Java with IBM WebSphere.

You can "pop up" and view two PowerPoint presentations of talks I gave to a Houston IBM AS/400 User's Group introducing them to XML and XML Web Services development with Java and WebSphere at the following link:

HASG Presentation on XML Web Services & WebSphere

I don't knock Java, because I think it is a fine server-side language, and I do like some things about IBM's capabilities.