Re: Looking For Direction

From:

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>

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alt.comp.lang.java,comp.lang.java.databases,comp.lang.java.gui,comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:11:11 -0400

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On 10-06-2010 17:45, Arved Sandstrom wrote:

David Kerber wrote:

In article <4c1033b3$0$278$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, arne@vajhoej.dk
says...

...

Given that he has Java, JDBC and Oracle experience then he should
have at least some advantages going Java instead of .NET.

Not to mention that those are all cross-platform options. while .NET
locks you into a windows-based network.

The way Mono is moving along that's not strictly speaking true.

True. But Mono is only 98% MS .NET compatible or so, which
either is not compatible or requires extra work to ensure
compatibility.

> In any

case, being "locked into" a Windows-based network is not exactly a
liability, not now and not for a few more decades. As it is, the
majority of fellow developers and clients that I deal with do J2SE/J2EE
on Windows. Every job I've had there's always been a fair bit - often a
majority - of other applications that have been on Windows. So it may be
a point of pride that your app in theory could run on many OS's, but
since almost everyone will have Windows who really cares?

The database is running on non-Windows platform today and he indicated
interest in Unix as database platform.

Windows is big but it is not everything.

Arne