Java to .NET Migration WhitePaper–Trends and Benefits

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I stumbled upon an interesting whitepaper written by Pique solutions. It spoke about the trends and insights and the strategic investments being made by companies, while doing a development platform migration from Java to .NET.

According to the whitepaper, the primary reasons of migration included technical and business reasons, platform stability and reliability, vendor support, total cost of ownership, and staff expertise and the availability of skills.

Here’s an interesting observation made in the whitepaper:

A higher incidence of companies migrating to .NET, with 28% more enterprises migrating from Java to .NET than from .NET to Java. Nearly one in five of the 782 companies in the survey already migrated from Java to .NET, with nearly half of those migrations occurring within the past six months.

Assuming this survey is unbiased, that is a pretty impressive number! Here’s an interesting chart that displays the top three business drivers for Migration


[Image copyright by @pique solutions]

To view the report in detail, Download the Whitepaper – Java to .NET Migration: Marketing Trends and Benefits

TechEd India 2010 Rocked!

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Due to a tight work schedule, I had almost decided not to go to TechEd 2010 held between April 12-14 in Bangalore, India. Well not attending it would have been a big mistake!

Fortunately, my work got over in time and thanks to my MVP Lead Abhishek, he arranged an entry for me at the 11th hour. All MVP’s got a free entry to TechEd – just another reason to become an MVP :)

The event completely rocked! Keynotes, Deep Dive Sessions, Product Announcements, Product Team interactions, Contests, Free MS Exams, Giveaways, MVP Parties, Community Track by MVP’s, Partner Stalls, Demo Extravaganza and not to forget, the endless opportunities of networking with business and technology experts. This event had it all. The TechEd India team did a bang-up job to keep everything in perspective and make this event a success.

I bet most of the TechEd attendees are now ready for the next wave of technology innovations and trends. This is one grand daddy of all events no one would want to miss!

Pictures speak larger than words, so I will let some pictures do the talking now! Thanks to Arjit Basu for clicking them.

Check this video of MVP’s at the launch of Visual Studio 2010. I am the one at the beginning of this video wearing a Black T-Shirt and speaking about why developers should attend this event!

Microsoft TechEd India 2010 from Abhishek Baxi on Vimeo.

I am already looking forward to the next TechEd - it's sure to be a blast!

I will be there at TechEd India 2010

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I am glad that I will be attending TechEd India 2010. If you are attending too, make sure you drop by to say a hello! You can recognize me through my profile picture. If you are a regular visitor of my other site www.dotnetcurry.com, you must be familiar with Subodh, Shoban and Mahesh. They too will be around and would be glad to meet DotNetCurry readers!

Microsoft Tech.Ed, the largest technology conclave, is being held in Bangalore, India between April 12-14, 2010! Tech.Ed is an amazing event that introduces you to today's cutting-edge trends and gives you a whirlwind tour of the latest Microsoft technologies.

You can follow TechEd-India on twitter. For more information visit http://www.microsoftteched.in/

Test out Windows Azure AppFabric Technologies using AppFabric Labs

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The AppFabric team has released the AppFabric LABS environment. This environment can be used by customers to test out and play with experimental AppFabric technologies, free of cost.

The AppFabric also plans to use this environment to showcase some early bits and get feedback from the community. Read More over here Now Available: The Windows Azure platform AppFabric LABS Environment

What is the Windows Azure AppFabric?

Windows Azure platform AppFabric helps developers connect applications and services in the cloud or on-premises. This includes applications running on Windows Azure, Windows Server and a number of other platforms including Java, Ruby, PHP and others. It provides a Service Bus for connectivity across network and organizational boundaries, and Access Control for federated authorization as a service. Read more

Microsoft Web Application Gallery

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Here’s a way to get instant access to the most popular free web applications available today. Check out the Windows Web Application Gallery. With just a few clicks you can install some popular web applications and be up and running within minutes.

Learn more about the Microsoft Web Application Gallery over here Introducing the Windows Web Application Gallery

Sixth Sense Technology - A Tech Thriller

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Pranav Mistry is the inventor of the Sixth Sense Technology. While speaking at TEDIndia, Pranav demoed the potential of the Sixth Sense Technology. In his own words, Sixth Sense is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. You can treat yourself with this amazing video shown below:

Note: If for some reason, you are unable to view the video in this post, you can also view the video over here

This Indian geek aims at taking the technology to the masses and plans to release the software behind sixthsense to the open source community. WOW

Pranav once again proves that you are only limited by your imagination! You can follow Pranav at twitter using @sixthsensetech and follow the list at #sst