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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Have you run a JAVA application on OSX recently? It is absolutly fantastic. It has the best desktop implimentation. Why? ... because Apple is putting their tears and blood into JAVA, as if their very life depended on it! They are doing the right thing. .NET is for windows only. It is for applications that will run on various versions of WINDOWS running on different harware platforms.
Don't you see that open standards of HTML, JAVA, LDAP, XML are threats to MS? JAVA is as must a worry to MS as LINUX. That is why they are trying to distract developers from it. BTW, I think Apple should buy REALbasic! They need a Visual Basic like language for newbee programmers.