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Yes, its triumph over the Java Desktop has been impressive.

Yup. It's the declining platform of today, while Java is the declining platform of five years ago.

> That must be the reason I get am getting more .NET contracts than Java ones I suppose.

The kind of contracts you have is entirely dependent on your skill set and your network. The last time I was paid to write C# code was 8 years ago.

You need cooler friends ;-)

Lets put this way then.

Our consulting company does mostly Fortune 500 and DAX 30 customers.

After 5 years of almost only Java projects, most of the new contracts are coming from .NET land.

Better explained?

I work for several very large telcos and I have been, so far, able to avoid both .NET and Java. Last time I wrote C# code was because Microsoft (then a client) demanded we run our application on a Windows server. I wrote a proxy that sat in front of the application (which ran on a Linux machine).

Again, you need cooler friends.

> Again, you need cooler friends.

The ones I have keep my account manager very happy.