[PatrioticAmerican]

Remember that most companies who are looking at .NET and are using ASP REALLY need to upgrade to something better. (Anything is better!) So, J2EE or .NET? I'd say from ASP to ASP.NET using C# is a far shorter transition period that moving to Java, leveraging existing ASP knowledge.

AS I have posted before, the market will most likely always be split and the competition is very healthy for both sides. Without .NET pushing Java and Java pushing .NET, not much will ever get done. I actually wish another large third party would join the market with a third competing technology. Frankly, I don't believe that the best ideas can be incorporated into only two product lines. Open source certainly is another venue for ideas, but we really need more.

[Dominic Harr]

I'd say from ASP to ASP.NET using C# is a far shorter transition period that moving to Java, leveraging existing ASP knowledge.

And I'd say that's sales pitch.

Having looked into it myself . . .

And as this article seems to confirm.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I'd say from ASP to ASP.NET using C# is a far shorter transition period that moving to Java, leveraging existing ASP knowledge.

Absolutely correct. I had an application that took me eight weeks to code and test in ASP.

Converting it to ASP.NET took eight hours.

Rewriting the whole thing in Java would have taken at least two weeks, maybe longer.

[rdb3]

AS I have posted before, the market will most likely always be split and the competition is very healthy for both sides. Without .NET pushing Java and Java pushing .NET, not much will ever get done. I actually wish another large third party would join the market with a third competing technology. Frankly, I don't believe that the best ideas can be incorporated into only two product lines. Open source certainly is another venue for ideas, but we really need more.

YES!

Hats off to you, P.A. That's what I'm talking about. To be totally honest, I want .NET to succeed. That forces Sun to step up. It forces OpenSource to get better. It's a win-win-win as far as I'm concerned.

Geeks like me want to battle it out at the workstation and in the cleanroom, NOT the courtroom.

Let the games begin!