>>>>Ten years ago I was cinvinced that .net was the future, now I am convinced that it's a dead end.
>>You're undoubtedly right, but there is a huge demand for .NET in the commerical desktop world, where a large chuck of business development money is stil being spent.
>>If anything, that demand seems to be accelerating, at least here in the northeast US.
>>I agree that at some point that curve will turn in the other direction, but the timing of that change is cloudy at best.
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>>About 10 years ago I was in contact with a group of high school computer science kids who all claimed that Windows was dead because all their advanced placement courses used only Java on Linux.
>>They may eventually be right but their timing was off by a wide margin.
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>>There's no question that if I were a graduate starting out, I'd be writing web apps with a Linux compatible language, but that doesn't necessarily mean that .NET won't be in demand for a long time to come.
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>The deciding factor will normally be who's your customers if you run your own company. If you don't want to run your own company, it will always be important to be able to adapt to whatever technology is currently in demand.

Isn't 85% of the market "in demand"?