If you have Windows, you have .Net. Free of charge.

Are you saying .Net is not a professional solution?
>Agreed and have said so before. Still, Java is currently in the brains of most gov IT the free & professional solution.

I don't understand what you are saying here.
>Lots if integration needed, Java prototypes / API etc first, Dotnet will come but later.

I wouldn't say there are fewer .Net jobs, but I can only speak of the market here. Both Java and .Net devs are in high demand in Utah.

>Dotnet IDE is slightly better, but IMHO not a deciding factor (at least for me: IdeaJ, Eclipse and Netbeans are workable).
>C# overtook Java as a language, offers much more and put fire under "Java community process"

It should be the other way around. Android has kept Java going in mobile.
>Java has kept the mobile lure in part via android


WinPhone still has work to do, but it's slowly making headway. It's telling when customer reviews on Amazon rate Windows Phones. Eight of the top 12 are Windows Phones.
> - MS still firing blanks with a vengeance in that area,
>previously hailed WP7 a commercial bust as I predicted, even if it is fun...
>Adoption and Jobs: more on the Java side, but slightly lesser paid.