Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 4th Feb 2004 05:34 UTC
According to statistics, Java continues to have the crown of the most used VM-based platform in the industry. However, Microsoft's C# and .NET gain ground every day. While C# might or might not overcome Java in the following years, the fact remains that more and more programmers want the choice of C# among their developer tools. So, where does this situation leave Apple?
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>But if you want to use portable applications you want to use a portable software platform.
In the real-life industry it does NOT always work that way!
In my case, my company was doing ASP development for living and we had this customer who WANTED to use this particular graphics design company who they only had Macs! As you can understand, the Mac people could not run our scripts in order to view our webpages we created and design the appropriate graphics.
It is not about "deciding" to use "portable" software platforms. Sometimes this is not in your hands and in these cases, you are screwed if your code doesn't run everywhere (for one reason or another). This is true for both web code and database code. For real application code is not as important.