>So if .Net is not a market leader, what is? And how are you coming to this conclusion?

You beat me to that question. .NET already is the market leader at least for Windows platform.


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>>But Mike has Microsoft .Net shown it's self as a market leader? Not in the last five years. But maybe they are considering that in the past MS was the leader. OK that might well be a consideration. I too have to consider that MS's money might just make it the winner in the end. But MS's recent record has not provided a lot of confidence. I keep seeing MS's cutting loses and running to something new.
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>>But your last point does not hold water. The languages in the top ten have been around years (python > 10, Java > 15, etc...). So what stops them from picking from the top ten. BTW the list I ref is the tiobe list (can't really recall the name).
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>>John