Competitors of .Net

[Sheetal Peter via .NET 247]

HI All,

As we all know, Microsoft is the market leader in the IT Industry. If we were to identify the competitiors for .Net, who could be the competitors ?

Regards
Sheetal

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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Sheetal Peter via .NET 247 <an*******@dotnet247.com> wrote:

As we all know, Microsoft is the market leader in the IT Industry.
Well, it's *a* market leader. The IT industry is too big to really
claim to have a single leader - there are too many aspects to it.
If we were to identify the competitiors for .Net, who could be
the competitors ?

The main competitors for mindshare as far as I can see are:

o Java
o Unmanaged C/C++
o VB prior to VB.NET

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[Cor Ligthert]

Hi Sheetal,

As we all know, Microsoft is the market leader in the IT Industry. If we

were to identify the competitiors for .Net, who could be the competitors ?

Do you mean in progress, than I can share your opinion, however as far as I
know, has IBM still a big share in the total marketplace. And there are
places in the IT industry where Microsoft is really nothing. (Processors,
All kind of Chips, Mainframes, a lot of other hardware, DVD, CD, tapes,
paper, .......................)

Cor

[Frank Lesser [LSW]]

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Sheetal Peter via .NET 247 <an*******@dotnet247.com> wrote:

As we all know, Microsoft is the market leader in the IT Industry.

Well, it's *a* market leader. The IT industry is too big to really
claim to have a single leader - there are too many aspects to it.

If we were to identify the competitiors for .Net, who could be
the competitors ?

The main competitors for mindshare as far as I can see are:

o Java
o Unmanaged C/C++
o VB prior to VB.NET

I would add Smalltalk not as a today's competitor but tomorrows. Alan Kay
the inventor of Smalltalk won recently the Turing award and Smalltalk is in
the press again.
In the last days there appeared two new implementations ( in beta ) an
interpreter for .NET and a dialect running with native widgets under Mac OS
X. Smalltalk has advantages for the developer ( see
http://smalltalk-programming.com ) . I wouldn't claim that competitors must
be really as big as MS for tomorrows' competition. Cncom & IBM Smalltalks
are today's mainstream Smalltalk environments.

Frank, www.lesser-software.com