If that's true, I suspect it's because Java is an awful, unsexy language that few programmers are interested in learning. You have your .NET people, and you ha

If that's true, I suspect it's because Java is an awful, unsexy language that few programmers are interested in learning. You have your .NET people, and you have people interested in exciting alternative languages like Ruby, Java, Erlang, Haskell, Go, etc. And then, for some reason, there are all these companies using Java (perhaps founded in the late nineties?) who need to keep things moving. (Also possible: maybe I'm wrong and Java is just a delight to program.) I'd be curious to hear about the job offer and salary comparison between .NET and "various fashionable languages" apart from Java.