The really big guys in Europe use SAP - followed by Oracle (MySQL and MS SQL are probably tied for third!). I've heard that someone over there is building an OS.

They put up with M$ in Europe - they're not Zealots on the seminar trail - and - they're too far from the Redmond Shrimp Buffets!

>Hi Terry,
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>In the UK there is different situation – mostly required ASP.NET.
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>When position Java (mostly it will be project connected to Oracle)...
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>At the moment Microsoft has a very nice MS SQL Server 2005 which cheaper and in some way more attractive than Oracle, so shift will be in the future to the .NET...
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>Different picture in London - there are rich and wealthy company which do not count money and they image is based on a slogan: "We have everything the most expansive!" (they still use Oracle and Java)...
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>But those are all my personal observations :)
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>>Has anybody noticed that most web projects are now asking for Java (not JavaScript not NET) skills?