Companies would be afraid of the whims of Oracle. I honestly believe that most individuals would trust Microsoft over Oracle. Microsoft is no longer a huge evil

Companies would be afraid of the whims of Oracle. I honestly believe that most individuals would trust Microsoft over Oracle. Microsoft is no longer a huge evil empire. Their goal is to augment their bottom line, and in the case of the .NET framework, their goals and yours would align. Additionally, the languages in the JVM are not better. Anyone who has used C# can tell you that Microsoft did an extremely good job designing that language. It can almost be stated that C# is hands down better than Java as a language (its dependency on Microsoft products aside). Also, what do you mean by "languages" as a plural? The other JVM based language are free of Oracle's control. If they wanted, they could use IcedTea, so Java's really the only platform at stake here.