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The .NET runtime doesn't cost money. The tools to write .NET programs cost money. Some of them.
by jallmann 15y ago
The .NET runtime doesn't cost money. The tools to write .NET programs cost money. Some of them.
- mseebach 15y agoThe .NET runtime is a part of Windows which costs money. Mono falls in the same category as OpenJDK: Not relevant for this discussion.
- thedeuce 15y agoif mono and openjdk are not relevant than neither are 0$ unsupported operating systems to run java on, at which point those operating systems cost equivalent $.
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- dextorious 15y agoThe money Windows cost are nothing compared to Oracle fees. You can buy Windows server editions for less that a developer's week salary. You'll need MUCH MUCH more than that for Oracle.
- mseebach 15y agoIt's very unlikely that the license to run the commercial JVM will cost the same as a license to run the Oracle DB. These are two very different beasts. In fact, I would guess that the cost of a Windows server license would be something of a benchmark for the price of the commercial JVM license.