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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"What if I want to run a web application I wrote on ASP.NET on these nicely looking XServes? The point of the matter is, Apple is now into workstation/server market with the Unix-based Mac OS X, so it makes sense to support as many such technologies as possible."
What if I want to run a webapp I wrote on ASP.NET on HPUX,AIX,SPARC etc?
See what I mean? This is not a valid argument IMHO.
"What if I want to run a web application I wrote on ASP.NET on these nicely looking XServes? The point of the matter is, Apple is now into workstation/server market with the Unix-based Mac OS X, so it makes sense to support as many such technologies as possible."
What if I want to run a webapp I wrote on ASP.NET on HPUX,AIX,SPARC etc?
See what I mean? This is not a valid argument IMHO.