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managed code is old hat

rogerv 5th Mar 2009

.NET managed code execution has been a
fixture of all Windows installs for
several years now. Any Windows developer
can create a .NET app and be assured it
will be able to run on most user's Windows
OS where .NET runtime is already
installed.

Even WinCE has Compact Framework as a
fixture. Our company develops apps for
industrial WinCE handhelds as all .NET so
that we don't have to be concerned about
the underlying CPU of the device.

Then on Linux, since Sun open sourced
Java, the Java JRE comes pre-installed in
most popular Linux distros. So already
today a developer can create a powerful
Java app and be assured it can run on
Linux too.

Plus Java SE and JVM is vastly more mature
and capable than Google's Dalvik VM. The
Google VM is optimized for low-end
resources in terms of CPU speed and
memory.

The Google Android platform is niche in
terms of being designed for portable
devices - as opposed to normal PCs and
notebooks that most people use in both
home and business.