Java vs dotNet

[gld]

Hi,

Our company develops a data mining application. We have a DB instance (can be 1 TB) for each customer and we have algoryrhms that process the data. The users are business users of the customer that use our web interface to trigger the process and get results.
I am checking alternative for the technology to be based on: java vs dotNet. I would like to get information regarding two aspects of this issue:

1. Costs - what is the average cost per programmer for the framework, associated developement tools,etc.
2. Time-to-market - learning curve and time it will take us to develope services with each technology.

Currently we use dotNet and SQL server, mainly because of historical reasons. We are still a small developement team and I think it is the right time for this strategic decision.

Thanks

Gilad

[drhowarddrfine]

The fact that you are asking this question makes me guess you are wanting to move away from the expense of Microsoft software, true? The problem lies in the fact that you already know .NET stuff and will have to go through the learning curve of Java. But Java can do anything you did with .NET which leads me to the question above, which you don't have to answer, of course.

The expense of moving to Java is only in time and any money spent would be minuscule to what you pay for MS licenses.

[Dököll]

Hi,

Our company develops a data mining application. We have a DB instance (can be 1 TB) for each customer and we have algoryrhms that process the data. The users are business users of the customer that use our web interface to trigger the process and get results.
I am checking alternative for the technology to be based on: java vs dotNet. I would like to get information regarding two aspects of this issue:

1. Costs - what is the average cost per programmer for the framework, associated developement tools,etc.
2. Time-to-market - learning curve and time it will take us to develope services with each technology.

Currently we use dotNet and SQL server, mainly because of historical reasons. We are still a small developement team and I think it is the right time for this strategic decision.

Thanks

Gilad

Hey there, gld!

I recently started a thread here on this, a bit more info on Java. Also, if your establishment simply want to convert existing apps to Java, there is software out there for that. This is just in case time is scarce, no Java programmers at hand and you need answers straight away.

Here's the discussion:


http://www.thescripts. com/forum/thread623040.ht ml

Here are links to conversion solutions:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7SUNA&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Convert+VB+app+to+Java+apps&spell=1

Good luck with this project!

Dököll

[swaliax]

it's a million dollar question.
you may get a good answer about the comparison about Java and Dot Net at [url removed]

[JosAH]

it's a million dollar question.
you may get a good answer about the comparison about Java and Dot Net at
<url removed>

I read that comparison table: it sucks. @OP: if you want some cross platform
solution for your problems, go the Java way: you can even develop your code on
an MS Windows laptop and run it on the largest Sun Fire server clusters. That
dot net stuff is kid stuff compared to that.

kind regards,

Jos