Comment by igravious
11 years ago
Nothing wrong with Microsoft bringing OSX and Linux to parity with Windows. In fact, there's a lot right with it. I like this new Microsoft, and I've been using Linux for years. Keep up the good work Redmond!
Excited to see that interesting tech like C#, F#, CLR, LINQ and friends is heading our way. If anything it'll give Java a run for its money and that's no bad thing.
I don't think anything is giving the JVM a run for its money. There are millions of man hours that have gone into performance tuning the JVM. The CLR has substantially less. Possibly for mid-size projects the CLR _could_ be an alternative but for the foreseeable future any administrator who is comfortable with Linux is likely also comfortable with the JVM tools necessary to troubleshoot and improve JVM performance.