Can't help but thinking on the "old farts" joke of George Carlin. Oracle and Microsoft while still successful in many areas, are getting far behind on many other areas and it's only because of this old man's way of thinking.
They will become irrelevant on the cloud... if they are not already so
quoting: "with.Net offering little advantage, and Perl, Python, and Ruby unable to match Java's performance"
ehhm... what? who wrote such ignorant statement? Or was this written in the early 90s where some of those languages did not even exist?