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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to tag along with her, there are a lot of MS windows machines in "black box" type applications running phone systems, machine tools, etc. Because they will all have VB or .net installed and usually front ends written in VB or .net, having .net give the apple servers easy access to get data OUT of the MS system.
I've worked in manufacturing and things move VERY slowly...VB is finally big after like 10 years...expect it to hang around for at least another 5 in machines or systems too expensive to replace. True, you could hack Perl scripts together to pick out the data files from your tools, but why when you can just install .net on the tool and use standard calls to access it!
Note: This is exactly the problem java is having now. It's gotten hard to make "write-once, run-anywhere" software, but in implementation, it's more of a "write java program on computer A" and "write java program on computer B"; make them talk. The two programs probably won't run on the opposite machine, but you can at least use 1 tool/language to write them both and save time that way!