.Net Leaving Java in the Dust???
[.NET vs Java]
There is a rather interesting(*) article(**) on eWeek about .Net beating Java and leaving it in the dust. According to Bob Muglia, Microsoft’s senior vice president of Server and Tools business, they are claiming to have 60% of the market. Where they are getting these figures is anyones guess. According to some statistics I saw recently I am pretty sure Java still has an overwhelming marketshare in the enterprise space. Not to mention that I am pretty sure that Java is still the number one programming langauge on Sourceforge.
Maybe they are referring to the fact that .Net is only (officially) supported on one platform (Windows). Maybe they are referring to the fact that Java is one of the top mobile phone platforms (.Net on mobile phones????).
In my opinion the future releases of Mustang and GlassFish will only further entrench Java’s place in the market.
* - by interesting I mean totally lame.
** - by article I mean MS platform for propaganda.
[Qt for Java]
In some other intersting Java news I just saw that Trolltech has released Qt for Java development. I think this could be very intersting. Although I am currently a GNOME user I do use several Qt applications (k3b is still the best cd-burning app out there) so I have no problem using apps made with other toolkits.
Because Qt for Java *will* be open source I think this could do for Java what Gtk# has done for mono. How long will it be until we see some really sweet apps being created with Java/Qt. How long will it be until we have the “Should Java be included with KDE” discussion (haha, that’s a joke). Now, if we could only get past Java’s pesky licensing issues…
[Scalix to go OpenSource]
It seems that the Email on Linux space is starting to heat up. Scalix just announced that they are going to open source much of it’s code which “will consist of the Scalix Server, a new web services API platform for application integration, the Scalix Installer, the Scalix Administration Console, Scalix Web Access Mobile and new search and indexing services, as well as Scalix Ready open source components.”
Scalix has a really nice product, which I tested at work as a possible replacement for our old system. In the end We decided to go with Zimbra though and one of the main reasons was because it is open source.
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