Your reference article written in 1998. In this time Java is on the one standart. Mobile devices needed care on some issues like C# or others.

Microsoft, C# is now a standard.?

I can't see a Borland C# or IBM C# but I can see;

Oracle Java Developer, Borland J builder, Visual Java, Visual Cafe ......

All them of compatible themselves...


>>However, if I would like choose a language like C# or Java my prefer will Java. Because;
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>>1- Java is really platform independent language.
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>Not really, see http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=4130 and http://www.wsdmag.com/Articles/ArticleID/6582/6582.html
>There are plans to port the .NET framework on other platforms, like Linux (http://www.go-mono.com/)
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>>2- Maybe one day Billy wakes up and he decide to "C# is over"
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>Contrary to Java and VB which are property of Sun and Microsoft, C# is now a standard. See http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS6480940104.html and http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/ecma/