[vram22]

>When any vendor comes up with a product that claims "[industry standard] is dead, use [our product]", there should be alarm bells ringing already.

Seen this from quite a ways back. When .NET came out, I remember college students in my neighborhood (e.g. when hanging out at some tea shop or restaurant), asking me (they knew me, and that I was in software), in a concerned tone, stuff like:

"We hear that now that .NET has come, Java will be dead. Is that right?"

I used to have to disabuse them of such nonsensical notions. Not that Java will live forever, but obviously a mature and widely adopted technology is not going to die off overnight. Such is the hype, though, for the new and shiny.