View Poll Results: What technology are you or your IT dept. using?
Sun - Java/JSP/EJB
8
50.00%
Microsoft - .NET/ASP/COM/DCOM
5
31.25%
Other
3
18.75%
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Sticky Rice OwnZ joO
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 4,246
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From: Bay Area & Sacramento, Cali
I started with HP-UX and all Unix stuff..
but about 1 year ago I started working with all MS stuff..
ASP, VB, COM+, XML, .NET
It has it's limitations, but I like it alot..
but about 1 year ago I started working with all MS stuff..
ASP, VB, COM+, XML, .NET
It has it's limitations, but I like it alot..
Banned
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 1,631
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I started out doing VC++/MFC/ASP/COM stuff, and did that for about 6 years.
I switched to Java about 3 years ago and have never looked back. It's a much more elegant language, and it allows you to develop efficiently without encouraging bad coding practices like some MS environments do.
I have looked at .NET and have been thoroughly unimpressed. Most of it is just trying to catch up with what J2EE has offered for the last 2 years. There's nothing really revolutionary there - and it's STILL not even cross platform (I know, they are promising to make it cross platform in the future, but I'll believe it when I see it.)
I switched to Java about 3 years ago and have never looked back. It's a much more elegant language, and it allows you to develop efficiently without encouraging bad coding practices like some MS environments do.
I have looked at .NET and have been thoroughly unimpressed. Most of it is just trying to catch up with what J2EE has offered for the last 2 years. There's nothing really revolutionary there - and it's STILL not even cross platform (I know, they are promising to make it cross platform in the future, but I'll believe it when I see it.)
Racer
Joined: Nov 2001
Posts: 330
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I'm a consultant, and I actually started out doing more strategy consulting work. When the market turned ugly, the need for strategy work died; so, the firm asked me to do some Technology work. I started out with Microsoft products, but recently I've been working with Oracle and Sun products. I must say I'm a much bigger fan of the Microsoft products. Everything was much more user friendly especially development.
Three Wheelin'
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 1,695
Likes: 1
From: Seattle
ms... While its still hard to find good devs, it's turned ordinary guys
like me (formally grunt work with access) into a really good dev
look-a-like. Plus, for a company it's amazingly easy to find decent
level employees.
like me (formally grunt work with access) into a really good dev
look-a-like. Plus, for a company it's amazingly easy to find decent
level employees.
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Suzuka Master
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 8,974
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From: West Orange, NJ, USA
Although I am not working right now, but I would prefer Java over the MS stuff also...btw, this is the second day I used Java 
just finished installing PFE32, I'm not up there yet..but with time and experience I will be, also will ask u guys to help me when I'm stuck since I know there's alot of programers here
just finished installing PFE32, I'm not up there yet..but with time and experience I will be, also will ask u guys to help me when I'm stuck since I know there's alot of programers here
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