[GFischer]

I'm in South America, but I do work for a big company.

I believe that we use VB6 and .NET because that's one of the two main platforms student learn (the other being Java), and programmers can be treated as interchangeable pieces. You're certain to receive thousands of applications for a job posting, and get outsourcing cheaply and easily.

Are the results good? I believe they mostly aren't, not because of a flaw in the platforms. And yes, change is sloow. There are too many stakeholders for anything.

I've heard of agile development with Java or java-likes, and .NET as well, it's not a platform thing.

[mootymoots]

Thats an interesting point about employees. I've seen a Java team take 6 months to hire 3 new developers in London. That's before development even started :)