[steele]

Knowns. I think it's mostly because of the 'knowns'.

Removes some uncertainty around planning maintenance & operational costs. Java developers are plentiful and framework training/certification programs are out there for the 'feel goods'.

Also... turns out, .NET is adopted for the above reasons as well.

[hkarthik]

As a former .NET guy, I was just going to comment on the fact that the Enterprise adoption of Java nearly exactly mirrors the Enterprise adoption of .NET. All of the complains and justifications sound exactly the same.