[Mr. K]

I can appreciate your point of view, but IBM tried to stick with OS/2 for how long? before it was officially dead

[RockyMtnMan]

Not the same thing. We are talking about enterprise apps not desktop OS's. Microsoft has never owned the high-end enterprise apps that has always been the territory of IBM.

Microsoft was/is so shaken up by Java they first tried to destroy it then they copied it (C#). Java will be around for a long time to come much to Microsoft's dismay.