Peter Golde, one of the original designers of the C# language, has been working recently on Power Collections for .NET, which is now released. According to the web site Power Collections is a "Community Project to Develop the Best Public License Collection Classes for .NET"
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Member since:The future of SUN is very dim, and it is the only one company behind to java. IBM, Oracle, etc also supports java, but this companies also support .NET. And IMHO the microsoft ritcher then SUN and the .NET for microsoft more impartant the the java for SUN - the future of .NET far more certain. And it is very important for bigger companies.
Member since:dot net is a replacement for the MFC library and nothing more. It is not JAVA! It may have features similar to java, but it isn't. I am surprised how many people submit Resumes stating they know DOT NET. That is the equivilent of saying You know PC. DOT NET is a platform without a specific language and an interpreted runtime that no one but the MS execs know where its going.
Compared to DOT NET, MONO seems to be a better platform but its trying to live up to DOT NET.
Yes the Dot Net community is big but at the expense of the MFC community and not neccesarily the JAVA community.
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For server side Java is still king and is backed by Sun and IBM. So the proprietary Microseft .NET might stand a chance in the desktop, but who cares? Nobody will ever take it seriously as long as it's a niche product made by the proprietary Microseft corporation.