>*smirk* "Brought to you by: the same folks that said COM is going away."

And VFP! I think this line speaks for the whole article:

By David Smith, Daryl Plummer and Mark Driver, Gartner Analysts

That means its a pile of crap, here's a good line:

However, it is important to note that without significant support for Java 2 platforms ... , Microsoft will use non-Sun (but Java-like) technology to provide a Java-like language for .Net.

How is that going to hurt C#.... that IS C#!!!

Anyways, one important thing to know about MS and Java is that VJ++ will be inlcuded on a seperate CD that ships with VS.NET.