I agree that it is well worth learning C#; however, if you have already developed in java for several years you already know 95% C#. The IDE and.Net framework are where the differences are. I disagree that fortune 1000 companies are jumping wildly for c#.net. The largest of those companies have requirements and legacy investments requiring something that j2ee can handle that vb.net wasn't designed to accomplish.
It is amazing that anyone in the linux community favors c#.Net over java. I think that gnome should be boycotted. All arguments made in favor of mono could also be made in favor of java except vendor lockin by microsoft.
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Since the article didn't mention it, Java was used for much of the ground-based command/collaborative software. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/features/mars.ht ml
I agree that it is well worth learning C#; however, if you have already developed in java for several years you already know 95% C#. The IDE and .Net framework are where the differences are. I disagree that fortune 1000 companies are jumping wildly for c#.net. The largest of those companies have requirements and legacy investments requiring something that j2ee can handle that vb.net wasn't designed to accomplish.
It is amazing that anyone in the linux community favors c#.Net over java. I think that gnome should be boycotted. All arguments made in favor of mono could also be made in favor of java except vendor lockin by microsoft.