> 2. Is it .Net an open standard? .Net is the most direct competitor. Yes it is, first under ECMA and then ISO/IEC - where Microsoft has exactly one vote and no veto right (unlike Oracle in the JCP). Microsoft's implementation is however not open source, while other implementations are. Given that you can write applications in C# and deploy to iOS and Android, this standardization is clearly not just theoretical of nature.
> 3. Alternatively, one should move to the completely community based > platforms such as Python, etc... Yeah that's what the Scala people are doing. Recent events have me starting to believe they are on to something. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
