No as far as I have studied .Net is a full platform (ASP.Net is just a part
of that ) it even does not need COM+ or other legacy systems and if you
transfer it's CLR to any machine you would enjoy the multi-platform also .Of
course I know that if Microsoft continues to release .Net only on it's own
systems it would not enjoy embracing of large numbers of enterprise
developers but I think the analyst guys at Microsoft are not so stupid to
ignore the case it may be future policy of Microsoft to abandon it's OS
monopoly and try to test new business rules (sticking to .Net). these are
the signs:
-MS has given C# to ECMA for standardization .
-there are rumors of developing .Net platform by Corel Linux developing
group for Linux
any way all these are some guesses for future as a developer what that
would be of importance is this:
will .Net installations grow for the next 2 years as large as 50% of J2EE
installations?
I think if we know the answer to this question we can decide about our study
investment for the time being