Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 9th Nov 2005 17:07 UTC, submitted by kellym
Microsoft has suggested that companies who can't find programmers skilled in .Net should consider retraining their Java experts. Mark Quirk, Microsoft UK's head of technology for development and platforms, admitted on Monday that there aren't enough developers in the market who can help companies migrate to .Net.
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>I'm not sure what is causing the lack of interest form
>Java-based shops, but I suspect it has something to do
>with the 'bubble' of overpaid Java developers that's
>out there right now.
I suspect that the lack of interest from Java-based shops has alot more to do with the desire to avoid lock-in to a single vendor's platform.
I suspect that the lack of interest from Java develpers comes from:
1) the fact that their are a lot more Java jobs out there (see above)
2) the fact that people want to have broad development experience which is applicable to many platforms
3) the fact that many developers have been burned by Microsoft's crappy APIs and environments before and have no interest in volunteering for more punishment (see Win16, Win32, COM, MFC).
A platform-dependent non-portable proprietary Java clone just isn't very compelling unless you've already drunk the MS kool-aid