Walter,

As a general rule, when you've worked with other developers that are similar to you in experience, do you find them to be technically knowledgeable about various technical aspects. Such as other tools, computing environments, etc?

I know I do. And I've also noticed that when a developer is at a certain level, and they need to learn new tools, they pick and choose their tools based on their comfort level with the tools to fulfill certain requirements.

So people I know discuss PHP, Java, .Net, Sql Server, Oracle, etc, based on technical merits. They've been around the block enough to not base decisions on marketing hype.

As such, it appears from everything I've read and heard, that .net is the choice by the majority these days for desktop apps. I don't know if you've read the Business Week article about Java. How it's market share is getting squeezed by LAMP in the Internet arena, and getting squeezed by .Net on the desktop arena.

And these people are making these choices because these things work. And work well.


>Perry,
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>>I think this would be a very valuable excercise. Please keep in mind the mindset of those posting against your idea before placing any weight on their comments.
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>>Folks such as Jim N., who I can guarantee has never gone so far as boot up the VS.net IDE. Then you have someone like Terry T. making a comment that the .net market needs to be proped up.
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>>Funny, I just went to Dice.com. Looked up VFP, a handful of openings (8) are displayed. Of which maybe 5 are legitimate VFP openings. One had todays date. Entered C# and received almost 300 hits, of which almost a dozen were from today.
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>Would you care to explain what you're saying here and what this has to do with the TECHNICAL rather than COMMERCIAL issue talked about here? The above you state here is a well known fact: as a .NET-er you have more choice of finding a job. I just fail to see the relationship between this fact and the issue reported by the poster up here.
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>Walter,