Re:Let me save you some time and embarassment (Score 1)

I agree that Microsoft OS's have been very buggy in the past, and Windows XP carries on the tradition, but to a much lower extent. However, .NET is a totally new and different infrastructure - the server os's as well as the framework. So far in my 2 years of .NET programming experience in the corporate world, all is going good. I like Java as well, but have had bad experiences with the JVM running out of memory under Redhat and weird buggy issues with development. Either way both envoronments (.NET and J2EE) have their faults as well as their capstones. Java is portable(like you said) and .NET is flexible and fast (under windows, I have not tried mono). IMHO.