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James Rogers wrote:
> There are no other major vendors. Microsoft tried making their
> own implementation and suffered a lawsuit from Sun. The Microsoft
> response was C#, which looks and smells a lot like Java but is being
> marketed as a different language.

According to comments I've seen on this newsgroup, C#
_IS_ a different language.  In fact, at least one of
those comments claimed it is a better language than Java,
at least from the viewpoint of the type of person who
likes Ada.

-- 
Wes Groleau

   A bureaucrat is someone who cuts red tape lengthwise.