The number of times I have heard that!!!!! Just like when other business types purchase other companies. One or two years down the road the purchased company is dissolved. There is never any guarantee. For that, MSFT could chuck VS in 5-10 years. Although for C#, that would mean chucking the IDE only.
>Oracle is not going to discontinue Java nor are they going to stop development of MySQL.
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>>Java is a scary place to be right now with new owners and an unknown future.
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>>I have no experience with Java, but friends that are in the know say can do everything with Java that you can do with .NET, but it's harder to do most things with Java than .Net.
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>>Why not look at Mono?
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>>>Hi Experts,
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>>>It seems that most of the threads I have read regarding making the shift (or perhaps as fallback) from VFP is towards .NET/C#.
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>>>Anybody going to "other side" by way of Java and other open source technologies?
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>>>Kindly treat this as an informal survey of sorts.
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>>>Any insights and/or thoughts are appreciated.
>>>
>>>Cheers!
>>>
>>>Dennis
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