Advantages Of .NET Over Java

ansonyumo writes "ZDNet is carrying an article written by one John Carroll that outlines specific advantages of .NET over Java. It's written from the point of view of a Java advocate who has 'seen the light.' First of all, comparing .NET and Java isn't very fair; you have to compare .NET and J2EE. When you level the playing field, most of his arguments readily fall apart."

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Re:.NET over Java? You have to be kidding me.

[zulux]

Mono [go-mono.org] is a clean-room implementation that runs natively on x86 Linux and interpreted on PPC, S390 and StrongARM.

Mono is not .NET - it will not have Microsoft's .NET libraries.

99.99% of all .NET applications won't run on Mono.

Some C# programs can run on .NET and Mono - but not any appplication that uses the Microsoft .NET libraries (99.99% of them)

Microsoft released [microsoft.com] the source to an implementation that compiles and runs on Windows, FreeBSD and MacOS 10.2.

As per Microsoft license for this release, you can't do any comercial work with it. You can't modify it and distribute for comercial use.

It's useless.

Microsoft has horrible support for it's languages - they left their Pascal, Fortran, VB users without any support. FoxPRO will probably be next.

I woulden't bet my future on .NET - not even Microsoft is releasing the next version of MS Office on .NET.