Found some interesting quotes from Wozniak related to apple and jobs.

He gave up a lot of his wealth, and even potential wealth to spend more time doing things he thought were more rewarding in other ways. So when he asks people to give up their share of the pie it's not a do as I say not as I do thing.

There are idiots that actually care to read the Youtube comments besides the idiots that reply to them?

Great! So now they have something they can use to download Firefox, since mozilla doesn't want it to be bundled.

Yep, just use Java and PreparedStatements

Haha, you got modded troll and overrated.

I guess the people with mod points today aren't real engineers.

The whole application is not likely to be the problem but there may be certain bottlenecks that you just can't get around.

After profiling the app and attempting to make changes in Java, you can always write a native library and call it if performance is better.

No need to rewrite the whole application.

ngen has it's drawbacks. A lot of optimizations are better dun at run time. With JIT optimizations, the compiler can be more aggressive and then still have the ability to back out of optimizations if necessary.

ngen can help with load time but for constantly running instances, such as web applications, load time is irrelevant.

You've obviously never heard of java's just in time compiler.

According to this, http://www.odinjobs.com/US_skill_statistics.html

Java developers are still in more demand.

I had other links but don't have time to find them now.

Java webapps haven't been slow for some time. A few years ago, after being a java developer since the mid 90's, I played around with PHP and have developed some sites with it. I did some informal benchmarking, using my custom java framework against a very simple PHP application that actually did less work. The java web app performed much better.

I haven't really looked at .net but I haven't had the need for it.