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.NET adoption is coming along rather nicely - thanks folks!

2008 has included a number of conversations with ISVs along the lines of "We are currently Java but we think .NET might be a better choice for us. Can you help?" and "We are currently using old technology X and are considering changing

Does the MSJVM explode on January 1st?

Back in November I posted a gentle reminder about the end of life of the MSJVM . Since then several ISV have asked me "what actually happens on January 1st?" The short answer is... nothing. Your applications which use the MSJVM will continue

Gentle reminder - end of life for the Microsoft JVM

I bumped into an ISV last week that relies heavily on the Microsoft JVM for their solution. The end of life date has been public for sometime - which is probably a good enough reason in itself for a gentle reminder. The End of Life for the MSJVM is December
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Simple yet elegant - SPA 2007

I presented and attended SPA 2007 ( http://www.spaconference.org/spa2007/index.html ) this year and also attended SPA in 2006. It is an event that brings together academia with industry, java developers with .NET developers (not to mention Smalltalk),
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ISV using Java today but interested in .NET for tomorrow?

A few weeks back I was asked to talk to a Java ISV about how they might move to .NET - more specfically target both the Java platform and .NET. It had been a couple of years since I had talked in this area (too much SQL Server 2005 work), so I did a search

Your world is Java - but you would like to talk to SQL Server 2005 - no problem...

We have just made available the Beta 1 of our SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver. This allows Windows and Unix Java clients to talk to SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000. Check out http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/2005/jdbc.mspx for details and how to
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Which programming language for .NET Framework Development?

In my first 2 years working with ISVs who were early adopters of the .NET Framework I think the most common question I was asked in an initial meeting was "which programming language should we use?" So there are many "it depends" but I finally settled
 
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