Re: Job Market for Java - Is it rumoured to be good right now?

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 02:42:41 -0400, Tome Watson wrote:

For whatever it's worth, I work as a recruiter for a large consulting
firm. I would have to agree that Java is taught more in academia, but
from a real world business perspective we are seeing a great deal of
migration from Java to C#, and almost none of the inverse.

I haven't seen any of that happening at all. Quite the opposite. And
those who are thinking their business will be saved by doing so are going
to be hurting in a big way. Some of the LEAST scalable systems I work with
at my job are the ones that run on .NET.
.

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