[kls]

Right which was my point above in setting the history of how we got here and why no one is really interested in leaving. The history is very important to how Java became dominate and created the top reasons, which I would content are inertia and labor pool. The reasons bullet pointed above are why no one is in a hurry to move on, it does what it is supposed to do and the enterprise is happy with it. Until the cost/benefit is blown away, they will continue to be happy with it.