Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 14th Jul 2005 20:02 UTC
When it was first introduced, Sun Microsystems' Java software for cellular phones was supposed to let developers write a single program that could run on any handset. A half decade later, Sun's Java for cell phones, called the mobile information device profile, or MIDP, is used in half the world's 1.4 billion phones for downloading other bits of software. But writing a program that can run on any handset still isn't possible.
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You're absolutely right, if you flip .Net and Java. Even MS has acknowledged that .Net is failing; afterall, C# did come 5 years after Java, 5 years too late...