[Mono-list] Please comment on excellent Java/J2EE/EJB v. Mono/.NET article here...

[Thomas F. Burdick]

Daniel Perry writes:

 > Surely if java was so good then it will fight the battle for
 > itself! People aren't going to move from java to .NET or Mono just
 > because other people say .Net/Mono is good! If they do, then they
 > will either find it to be a bad experience and will return to java,
 > or will find it to be an improvement, and stay away from java, in
 > that case with good reasons!

Oh, please, people don't necessarily make architectural decisions
based on rational weighting of the appropriate criteria.  DOS won over
MacOS, NT apprears to be beating the pants off of Solaris, and Visual
Basic has more users than probably every other high level language put
together.  That's not to say that things can't win because of
technical superiority, but superiority alone is no reason to think
something will win out over a competitor.

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