>I haven't seen a 3 to 1 ratio. I think it's been far less. >Just from personal experience, there are recruiters swarming >all around the dotnet user group in LA every month due to >shortage of applicants. I was down in San Diego last weekend >for codecamp. One of the organizers said the recruiters show >up for the SD user group meetings also.

Funny you should bring that up. I have a friend who attends Linux meetings and last night he was accompanied by a Java head hunter.



>My experience shows that dotnet is lightyears ahead of Java on >the desktop.

You got that right! But that is sort of changing with the recent SWT GUI and eclipse. I still do not like Java!

Someone else brought up Python. I like Python very much. It is very much like VFP. Ed Leaf and Paul McNett are writting a product call "dabo". It follows VFP thinking along with adding BizObjects. Both Ed and Paul took a look at .Net and decided there has to be something out there they would like better - they picked Python.

John