I agree with you - generalizations are never a good thing. I did however, have negative experiences with .NET in the enterprise space. I worked in C# for a few

I agree with you - generalizations are never a good thing. I did however, have negative experiences with .NET in the enterprise space. I worked in C# for a few years improving some web services for a Finance company. This was long before Java 7 even, so as a language C# 4.0 seemed amazing to me at the time. Lambdas, LINQ etc, - I was blown away. Microsoft ecosystem, however was not really wowing me in any way. There wasn't for example any sort of equivalent to JMS in Microsoft land - MSMQ was simply pathetic in terms of functionality. Apache Active MQ for .NET wasn't really mature at that point. Then, there is the Microsoft SQL server which, again is not really good at any particular thing.