ManipUni said:Ubuntu said:*snip*Not really.
One of the reasons that people preferred Zend framework and Spring over .NET was because Microsoft was under the impression that people were really after X Microsoft technology, like IL based multi-language support that Java did not offer.
Really what people were after was the most rapid implementation of the functionality.
It was all about the tool. Little independent ZF eventually won out on .NET because of the arrogance of the company and the team. They had cloned and supersetted Java and acted as if though they had invented something. In the same fashioned as what they did with Netscape and Internet Explorer.
In today's fast paced world it really is about getting from point A to point B as quickly as possible. We really do live in a be quick or be dead IT environment, and the minute it's quicker to accomplish every day tasks on one system or another, that system
will be king. Whether it costs $0 or whether it costs $500. People will pay because their time is worth more.
The interesting thing is that for some tasks, the mobile device actually beats the desktop, and Android is a force there.
People in general don't associate Android with Linux, but it is the killer app.
