C# - Java

[shady28]

How many major companies are there that do not use exchange/sharepoint/ad/etc? I would guess that tech giants like Google do not, but other than that... Yeah, the MS setup is fairly pricey for smaller business and isn't the new sexy that tech startups will use, but it is not going to die any time soon.

I was thinking the same thing. I prefer C#.

Granted you have more options on platforms with Java, but that can be a bad thing. In a corporate environment, know-nothing VPs tend to come in periodically and change the platform where they can as part of so-called 'strategic vision'. So you might wind up moving a Java application from Linux to say, z/OS. With C#, they can't do that, at least not very easily or cheaply. Being locked into Microsoft's world is not really so bad

 

[beginner99]

How many major companies are there that do not use exchange/sharepoint/ad/etc? I would guess that tech giants like Google do not, but other than that... Yeah, the MS setup is fairly pricey for smaller business and isn't the new sexy that tech startups will use, but it is not going to die any time soon.

there are many alternatives. Company I work for had Lotus Notes and now we have Google Business apps stuff and not exchange. There are also alternatives for sharepoint and they are big. AFAIK most businesses that use SAP also use OpenText instead fo SharePoint.

 

[postmortemIA]

there are many alternatives. Company I work for had Lotus Notes and now we have Google Business apps stuff and not exchange. There are also alternatives for sharepoint and they are big. AFAIK most businesses that use SAP also use OpenText instead fo SharePoint.

Same here. Google business apps were our replacement for outdated Lotus Notes.

 

[K7SN]

I hack (using the original definition of the word in computer science) in Java and code for others in C#.