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I see. Do you know this person?

Not personally. But he's left his slime trail on enough of these threads that we're all familiar with his misdeeds.

Their point looks like something I might see on Slashdot. I don't know how anyone could say that .NET isnt ready for primetime.

He has a vested interest in Java and doesn't want to see it disappear; otherwise, his gravy train comes to a halt and he has to be retrained.

I don't remember anyone talking about Web Services in a serious way until .NET came along.

They didn't. Sun has come late to the party and wants to retrofit Java with Web Services capability.

The main reason I like .NET is that I will be able to write COBOL in the IDE to deal with our legacy system right along side C#.

Although you are the first .NET COBOL developer I've ever spoken to, I appreciate the benefit of leveraging familiar programming tools.

I dont think any other vendor is offering anything like that, so .NET will probably dominate as VS has done for so long.

I agree. Thanks for the response.

Today I saw a truck with an "Eiffel" (sp?) sticker. I yelled, ".NET?", and he nodded, "Yep. Can ya believe it?" I don’t know if he really is using Eiffel, but the sticker was cool. It went to show that .NET isn't a single language like Java and J2EE is. So far, there are over a dozen languages available for it, and most are NOT from Microsoft! And yeah, LibertineR is the first COBOLer I have heard of. COBOL on a new platform is way cool! Try that one, Sun!

And, no Harr, I won't be giving you detiails on our implementation. You'll just have to wait for the press release like everyone else. Besides, Harr, you work for a competitor to my company, so why give you inside info?