>Smart CIOs with lots of Java baggage in their companies should be investing in transition to C# given the state of things... Uh, out of the frying pan, into t

>Smart CIOs with lots of Java baggage in their companies should be investing in transition to C# given the state of things... Uh, out of the frying pan, into the fire. People are complaining because the DON'T want to pay for support. So switching to C# to pay for support is not really solving the problem. The base problem is that people want to pay ZERO for support, but get the OracleJDK instead of having to use the free OpenJDK. (I'm a linux guy so I don't mind OpenJDK. But apparently a lot of people don't like the whole free side of Java.) So if they switch to C# to access support, they would still have to pay. This is the essential issue. People don't want to pay. Switching to C# does nothing for them. Switching to Go would allow them to get free stuff. But only until someone started charging. Which might not be for a while. Also, Go probably doesn't have even close to the number of third party libraries that Java has. So that would be a consideration in the case of switching to Go. But yeah, switching to C# would just be stupid in this case. It would cost more for the support than Oracle charges for Java.