Cameron Purdy, one of the most eloquent Java advocates out there today, writes an excellent blog explaining why he doesn't support .NET in his product.

He writes:

Back to the .NET analogy: It's a product. Swimming upstream. Albeit a product with up to $50 billion of cash to make butterfly ads for it. However, it's still just a product. Once Java took hold, there wasn't a lot of room left for products in the same space. All of a sudden, Microsoft is faced with a seemingly unstoppable tide, representing the same type of leverage that commodity hardware gave Microsoft in the operating system wars against systems like Unix running on proprietary hardware.

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So what benefit does another proprietary product like .NET provide? One that doesn't exist out of necessity, but out of the least darwinian of capitalistic circumstances? It's like a five year plan in the former USSR: You know it doesn't actually make sense or help anything, but if you live under it, you're certainly not going to say anything negative about it. And heck, this five year plan is as good as any that came before it.

Now why isn't Sun placing this guy on a retainer?  With the hit and run benchmarks contract hire by Microsoft's Gregory Leake, its about time we ask for more action (and words) from the current Java Evangelist.

BTW, Cameron, can you at least change the title of your weblog from "My Weblog" to something more distinct?