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Went to TriJUG. Thought I was going to talk to a few Apache buddies and a few of their friends. I wore my MS t-shirt. And planned to do my normal stereotype demolishing "I have friends at MS, Sun, IBM, Apache, PHP, ActiveState, etc... " bit.
Turns out that there was a full auditorium. Much to even my host's surprise. At least 1/4 of the audience was looking for work. The TriJUG has a reduced admission price for people who were unemployed. There was a lot of anxiety. Looks like .NET has a lot of people spooked.
I frankly acknowledged that C# and .NET is real and does contain some interesting features (example: I like enums). No question. And despite this, I still see Java going strong for the foreseeable future. When asked technical questions on areas I knew about, I gave detailed answers. On other areas and nontechnical questions ("what are IBM's plans for .NET" and "what are Sun's motivations"), I declined to speculate.
From what I could tell, the mood seemed perceptibly a bit brighter at the end - people saw somebody who actually had a reasonably deep understanding of both technologies, wasn't a religious zealot on either side, and continues to be bullish on Java.