I disagree with such sweeping generalizations. It's not about 'cuteness'. It's about the ability to develop usable, real world software. There is plenty of software in the *nix ecosystem running on .NET (using the Mono runtime)
> There has been some debate about whether .Net will kill Java some day @ http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gid=43315&discussionID=11307898&split_page=1.NET is cute but not really viable for most open source deployments
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> My position is that .Net will not and does not need to kill Java. So no flames .....
and also for linux / unix deployments ... and that is a critical
factor for many. You've got a look at not just java ... but other
programming stacks built on top of it ... e.g. Groovy/Grails ... JRuby
... Jython etc..
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