GOD IN THE MINDS OF A TERRORIST

GOD –IN THE MINDS OF THE TERRORIST
In This piece I am going to address the problems of that kind of terrorism which is labeled as religious terrorism, that is, terrorism attributed to, or associated, with religion.
Terrorism of any kind, in any form, is deterrent, a threat to peace and development. But an equally formidable threat to lasting peace and development comes from counter-terrorism in the sense that a vicious cycle, a symbiotic relationship is created in which the two phenomena feed on each other.
Violence
Such conceptualization of religious violence, equated with, or occasioned by, upsurge in the world’s religions, in different parts of the globe, implies that such religious resurgence has to be rolled back for restoring secular values; for reinforcing modern western civilization with its inherent polarity between secularism and religion; for strengthening the United States ‘as the politico-military champion’ against religious terrorism on global level, and for accelerating the forces of globalization which is seen as the great historical force for leveling down ethnic, ethno-religious and religious identities that are perceived as the breeding ground for religious assertions. This is one scenario today.
The other opposite scenario may be termed as GOD in the minds of the terrorist, in the sense that religious acts, labeled as terrorist acts by the opponents, are of the nature of religiously and morally justified reprisal against the STATE TERRORISM, now outsourced and globalized by the US led west that, singling out Islam is an example.
There being no meeting ground between these two extreme positions, it is, therefore, essential to comprehend the dialectics of contemporary social realities expressing itself out in these two opposite scenarios.
Four main characteristics constitute the dialectics of contemporary social reality in the world today; these characteristics have direct or indirect bearing on terrorism attributed or related to religion.
First, the class contradictions that predominated the larger part of the twentieth century have given place to ethnic, ethno-religious, and religious contradictions; whereas earlier the ethnic, ethno-religious contradictions were meditated in and through ethnic, ethno-religious, and religious contradictions.
Secondly, the last decades of the past century witnessed the failure of the modern western civilization’s secular ideologies-liberal democracy, nationalism, socialism, communism-that once held out to humankind the hope, in one or the other form , for redemption of society and state; hence the resultant ‘incredulity toward metanarratives of progress and development. The vacuum so caused by the betrayal of the secular ideologies came to be filled by religious effervescence and resurgence in different parts of the world, providing alternative religious ideologies for radical transformation of man, society and state, for ushering in the new world order, for bringing about a new multifocal global civilization in place of unifocal Modern western civilization, now on the way out.
Religious Vs Secular
This brings me to the third important characteristic of contemporary social reality: “the clash of civilizations”. This clash is more of a clash between religious and secular ideologies. The eastern civilizations are intertwined with religious beliefs, rituals and symbols. Religion in eastern civilizations is instantiated in both personal and community life of people. The modern western civilization had, as its foundational category, the ‘deified’ reason that was supposed to reign supreme in nature, history and society, with the promise of bringing about a rational society and system, free from inequities and inequalities. The defied reason has betrayed its promise and so the modern civilization’s claims of progress and development, which in reality should have brought empowerment of the peoples, particularly the marginalized ones, also stand betrayed.
The clash of civilizations, the clash between religious and secular ideologies, the clash between religious terrorism and counter-terrorism are all enmeshed with each other is becoming clearer every passing day. The US led offensive, enlisting the support of countries after countries, in the name of counterterrorism, is deeper in implication than what it appears on the surface. The US president George W Bush in his address to the Americans on the 5th anniversary of September 11 attacks on world trade center stated that the UNITED STATES was engaged in “ a struggle for civilization” and that this was “the decisive ideological struggle of the era”.
Economic disparity
Coming back to the dialectics of contemporary social reality in today’s world, its fourth characteristic is pervasive effect of globalization, both as an economic dispensation and an ideology, cumulatively, eroding the group identities of ethnic, ethno-religious, and religious identities of the minorities and migrants in different parts of the world.
Globalization, as an ideology, has bigger potential than its economic form, for sudden violent eruptions, often in ethnic and religious forms. Globalization is fast fostering a consumerist culture, propped up by credit card borrowings, the illusionary prosperity of which is benumbing the voices of discontents, dissents and protests against the exploitative system and is de-sensitizing the marginalized, the deprived and the other have-nots to the earlier redemptive concepts of revolt and revolution leading to their collective mobilization which, now thanks to globalization, as an ideology, is suffering diffusion, dispersal and dissipation, but nevertheless, getting repressed in subconscious mind.!!!!
Way out
What is the way out of the vicious cycle, referred to in the beginning, created by ‘the terrorism Vs counterterrorism. The solution lies in a radically different mindset, with a seven pronged approach. First, the US led globalized assault on religious terrorism in the name of counter terrorism should be decentered: it would be easier to tackle and contain religious terrorism if it remains context specific, situation specific, region specific , etc. Secondly, the contra-distinction between religious resurgence and upsurge in religious terrorism should be recognized. Thirdly, the dichotomy between religion and secularism, embedded in the modern western civilization, should be transcended and sublated into religious pluralism that should be translated into the praxis of national polities of different countries. Fourthly, the group identities of different ethnic, ethno-religious and religious communities should be respected and all such communities should be treated as equals in national policies. Fifthly, with the gradual and inevitable withering away of nation states under the impact of globalization, the fetishized concept of nation state with rigid international boundaries should be dispensed with; the days of exclusivist national sovereignties. Sixthly, with the rise in the cases of genocide throughout the world, in the name of ethnicity, religion or whatever , time has come to give some special attention to quick justice pattern. Seventhly, accepting the reality of clash of the civilizations, today this should be sublated into synergy of world civilizations in evolving a global multifocal, multicultural civilizations based on both REASON AND FAITH!!!!!
MY HEARTFELT THANKS TO DR. JASBIR SINGH AHLUWALIA( FORMER VICE CHANCELLOR, PUNJABI UNIVERSITY)
THIS WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT YOUR EFFORTS SIR!

**Engineering woes2***

ENGINEERING WOES (PART2)
I REALLY DO NOT REMEMBER WHERE I HAD STOPPED IN STRIPPING OFF ‘ENGINEERING LIFE’ OR TO BE MORE PRECISE LIFE IN ‘ENGINEERING COLLEGE’!!!
AH YES, I HAD TAKEN A BREAK OFF FOR MY 6TH SEMESTER EXAMINATION AND THINGS WERE QUITE HECTIC (THEY ARE SAME THOUGH EVEN AFTER EXAM)
ANYWAYS IT WAS ALWAYS A DREAM TO BE THE SENIOR MOST BATCH IN COLLEGE AND HERE WE ARE IN OUR 7TH SEMESTER,IN OUR FINAL YEAR AND GUESS WHAT ‘WOES’ HAVE INCREASED SEVEN FOLD.
MANY THINGS CHANGE AS WE GROW UP, WE JUST DON’T INCREASE IN INCHES, OUR GREY GETS GREYER , OUR LIPS DON’T SING EVERY SONG WORLD IS SINGING,OUR FINGERS DON’T WRITE FOR JUST FUN AND GROWING IN ENGINEERING COLLEGE GIVES US ALL THIS!!! ALL THESE CHANGES, AS WE GROW UP, WE DON’T JUST WRITE ASSIGNMENTS AND SPIT OUT VIVA VOCE AND SING OUT SESSIONALS, WE MAKE CHANGES, WE INVENT, WE INNOVATE AND WE DEFINE WHAT MEANS WHAT!!!
I KNOW ITS TAKING YOU BY SURPRISE THAT I AM BEING REALLY GOOD TO COLLEGE AND NOT STRIPPING ‘ENGINEERING LIFE’, O DON’T WORRY, THE ARTICLE WILL BE ‘PAISA WASOOL’, I JUST DON’T KNOW WHICH THREAD TO PULL FIRST… LOL ;)
THE BEST THING ABOUT BEING IN HIGHER SEMESTERS IS THAT YOU ARE MORE OF A TEACHER TO YOURSELF AND THERE IS VERY LITTLE DEPENDENCY ON COLLEGE, THIS RULE HOWEVER HAS FEW EXCEPTIONS OF EXTREMELY HARDWORKING PEOPLE WHO COVER IT ALL IN COLLEGE AND GOD FORBID IF A SEMESTER GOES WITHOUT A REGULAR TEACHER FOR SUBJECT THE FORMER ARE ALWAYS THE MERRIER, LATTER CAN BE FOUND BITING OFF THEIR NAILS IN EXAM HALL!!
THERE IS SOMETHING THAT COMES NATURALLY TO AN ENGINEER, LIKE WE INHERIT OUR MOTHER TONGUE, ENGINEERS INHERIT HYPOCRICY AND DIPLOMACY AND AH GOD THEY CONUSE IT WITH INTELLIGENCE, YES THEY DO INHERIT IT IN THEIR COLLEGE LIFE AND I BELIEVE IT IS NATURAL TO DO SO UNTILL AND UNLESS YOU ARE SOME SAINT OR REALLY DUMB!!
THE LAST SEMESTERS ARE BASICALLY MEANT TO SEE IF WE CAN REALLY SURVIVE IN ENVIRONMENT THAT AWAITS US WITH OPEN ARMS!! THUS IN OTHER WORDS A NEWSPAPER ALWAYS WAITS FOR US ON THE BRAKFAST TABLE AND I CANT BELIEVE WHEN MUM SAYS, “CHECK OUT FOR SOME JOB AND ITERVIEW NOTIFICATIONS BEFORE TAKING YOUR TEA”, O GOD!!!
FINE!! YOU SIP YOUR ANGER WITH TEA AND LEAVE FOR COLLEGE WITH BURNING SENSATION IN YOUR THROAT CAUSED BY TEA SERVED WITH LOVE!!! LOL
SUDDENLY YOU FIND COLLEGE EXCITING WHICH YOU NEVER DID IN ALL THOSE THREE YEARS, REASON BEING THAT YOUR HOME IS MORE OF A BATTLEGROUND FOR JOBS AND COLLEGE IS O SO CARELESS WITH ALL THOSE HAVING THINKING AS GOOD AS YOU HAVE… LOL..
SOMEWHERE IN YOUR MIND YOU ALWAYS CALCULATE YOUR PERCENTAGE EVERY HALF AN HOUR JUST TO MAKE SURE YOU STILL FALL IN THE JOB CRITERIA OF BIG COMPANIES, THINKING ALL THIS AFTER A HECTIC DAY AS YOU WALK IN LANE LEADING TO YOUR VILLA, YOU MEET UP ‘XYZ AUNTY’, AND YOU COME TO KNOW HOW HER GIRL WANTS TO BE AN ENGINEER AND ASPIRES TO BE IN “ABC” COMPANY, AND THEN SHE JUST WANTS TO KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT IT AND WHAT HER GIRL SHOULD BE DOING TO BEJUST INLINE FOR A JOB!!! THAT’S WHERE YOU USE F WORD FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME IN YOUR LIFE AND HEY IT IS NO SIN THIS TIME… LOL
YOU REACH HOME AND THANK GOD THAT MUM AND DAD BOTH HAVE NOT TURNED UP, BUT YOU DO FIND AN ‘EMPLOYMENT NEWS’ ON THE FRIDGE WITH A NOTE ATTATCHED TO IT “GO THRU IT BETA”
AND THEN YOU HAVE THE FINEST OF IDEAS UNDER SHOWER, THINKING OF COMPANIES YOU ARE GONNA GOOGLE UP AND SEND YOUR RESUME TO..
YOU COME OUT, TURN YOUR PC ON AND DON’T KNOW WHY YOU GET ON TO THIS THING CALLED “FACEBOOK”
LIKE,UPDATE, COMMENT, CHAT AND FINALLY YOU TAKE YOUR REFUGE IN MUSIC!!!!
MUSIC NEVER DISAPPOINTS YOU AND LETS YOU SLEEP IN ITS LAP TILL YOUR MOM COMES TO WAKE YOU UP AGAIN AND CURSE ENGINEERING!!! LOL
PS>>> ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSE ONLY,NO RESMBLANCE TO ANY CHARACTER LIVING OR SUFFERING… LOL
GUNYT

Happy birthday to me. . A review of happy moments!

9th september, 6pm i get to know from one of my friend and mentor Amir gulzar(regional manager, Ranbaxy int) that there is a surprise in store for me and i better stay with them at their villa, we call it friends villa, i have loads of friends there who do not share college with me but have helped me become what i am. I reached there at 7pm and found everything silent i mean i doubted if anyone else except amir knew about my birthday or it ll be a waste. I talked to sanjiv(mba final yr), mir irfhan (lawyer in jammu high court) vishi bro and Saurabh ma buddy! In a moment i found Ishant entering door with lots of movie dvd's in hand and in his typical tone said,"jaldi jaldi choose karo".! We selected two movies for the night, 'SALT' and 'INCEPTION'. . Now it was all boy zone and i had promised ma sis that i ll be celebrating with her only. Anyways let me come straight to the event, upto 12 we had finished watching one movie and as it stuck 12, i got attacked on all sides from these fellows, they picked me up, threw me up in air, kicked me and finally dropped me hard. . If not for ma birthday i would ve slapped them. . Ma best fren saved me from further torture, she called in at right time and i went off to talk to her. I came down after ten minutes, cut the cake and they danced and cheered for me. . It was really amazing moment. I got calls from friends but missed most of them cuz of celebrations that we were on for. Amir us all out for ice cream at mid night and we came back without it after searching gole market. . Lol:)
I have some of the best people in world as frens. As i lay in ma bed, i logged in to social networking sites and found wishes all around. Thank you so much for wishing. May God bless you all.
Ma alarm rang exactly at 4am and after a shower, i started out with prayers and then went to jog with amir n saurabh.
After a heavy breakfast i turned back to ma place and di was kind of angry but anyhow she gave me a really beautiful gift and hugged me tight! I love you di. :-)
and then i spent ma whole day with di, uncle aunty and cousins, we went off to bahu fort and enjoyed lots, even tried for movie tickets but being friday we were unsuccessful. :-( housefull dabang. .
I just returned back and hey its eid as well na, i really feel blessed to have celebrated ma birthday on eid.
I still have some treats pending for the evening. . . Will catch up with ma buddies and party. ,
thank you all for wishing and God bless you.

Awesome mornings start with hukumnama!!

I Loved this piece of gurbani!
I woke up this morning and like always checked on my cell before goin on for morning prayers, and there i saw this jewel of golden words from shri guru garanth sahib ji!
~~soohee>fifth mehla
Renouncing everything, i have come to the Lords sanctuary: save me, o my Savior Lord!
Whatever YOU link me to, to that I am linked: what can this poor creature do?||1|| O my dear Lord God, YOU are the inner knower, the searcher of hearts.
Be merciful to me, o divine, compassionate Lord, that i may constantly sing YOUR glorious prayers||1||pause||
renouncing self-conceit, i have become the dust of all men's feet, in this way i die while i am alive if not for YOU||2||
How fruitful is the life of that being in this world who chants name in saadh sangat(company of holy). All desires are fulfilled, for one who is blessed with God's kindness and mercy||3||
O Merciful to the meek, Kind and Compassionate Lord, i seek Your refuge. Take pity on me and bless me with YOUR name.
Nanak is the dust of the feet of holy||4||11||58||

*+Kashmir unrest and status of minorities+*

Northern most governed part of india is on boil again and like always we dont find any help from anyone. Year 2008 saw massive protests, infact the largest uprising after 47 in india, but why did it fizz out?? Reasons unknown!!
Year 2010
'LAck Of vision and mission'
I am really sorry if it sounds bit harsh that i am calling this movement without mission and vision, i am no scholar no historian, i am just a common kashmiri living away from his land. I am really disappointed and feel sad about the way things are shaping in kashmir. It is good to know that protests finally are not instigated but spontaneous and we do ve back up from all of india's civil society after a long long time, Do WE WANT IT TO fizz OUT LIKE 2008!!
Some may argue that 08 laid basis for what is happening today, i would slightly disagree because now every tom dick and harry knows that the phase was political which resulted in nothing but losses. This time things are different, and thats really appreciable if we can get something good out of it. ,
i am part of SGPC youth faction (it is one of the governing authorities for sikhs) and after maintaining a long spell of silence i speak. After detailed discussions with the minorities and series of meetings with people over past one month, there are certain things that we want to make clear to each and every person with stone in hand demanding freedom!
1. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE IT A COMMUNAL MOVEMENT.
I know kashmir has been the best example of religious harmony and many would even argue that the movement is not communal, it is purely movement of people, but my interaction with minority people shows a different page altogether. There are certain things that majority community will have to realise very soon if they dont want 2010 to fizz out like 08.
Homing about 8k sikhs in different parts and pandits as well as hindu's kashmir presents really good picture of religious tolerance. I feel proud that even after migration of pandits we were able to maintain our good picture in d eyes of world but now things are changing, now i wont just pick up a single hair cutting incident that raised brows around globally spread sikhs and other communities as well. .
HAIR CUTTING INCIDENT; aftermath. .
I was in direct contact with the district committee of my town baramulla when this incident occured, soon a meeting was called up in jammu to review the situation and press note was released condemning the incident and clearly mentioning that it should not affect brotherhood in valley! Then we had series of assurances coming from all sections of society including hurriyat conf. Sikhs took it as one unfortunate thing and tried to move on but then review of different sections of sikhs yielded following. .
1.Most of the sikhs in valley are beleived to be an obstacle hindering something called azadi.
True they may be because we never were protesting against hindu's or any community and i as a person never felt imprisoned there, yes there were human rights violations there still are and we protest that! The view of sikhs that they are hindrance for the cause of azadi is creating tensions which need to be eased. The meetings of sikhs with gilani or any other did not discuss this, it is an issue.
2. Sikhs have not contributed to the cause of kashmir. .
I wonder how that is true, we work for same govt as majority does. From past 3months the plight of sikhs is same as majority, all are house arrested, education has suffered equally for both.
There are points that one of the members of sgpc has gathered after his visits to twin villages of dardpora and rafiabad, they wil be made public in next post.
I on behalf of the whole sikhs community of jammu and kashmir request and urge majority community to keep the movement away from religion. Waheguru ji ka khalsa waheguru ji ki fateh

****ENGINEERING WOES PART1****

*****ENGINEERING WOES*****
THEY SAY THE NUMBER OF SHEETS WRITTEN BY AN ENGINEER IN FOUR YEARS ARE SUFFICIENT ENOUGH TO BURRY HIM WHEN HE IS GONE, LOGIC STANDS GOOD FOR BURNING AS WELL!!!
THE REASON I AM WRITING THIS MUST BE OBVIOUS BY NOW, THIS IS JUST TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS “ENGINEERING WOES”!!! BEING AN ‘ER.BABU’ IS NOT SO EASY, THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT ENGINEERING KILLS IN YOU, NOT TO MENTION OF THE TIME AND INK,THEY GO ALONG…LOL!!
I STARTED THIS JOURNEY THREE YEARS BACK NOT KNOWING IT WILL TAKE SO MUCH AWAY FROM ME AND GIVE SOMETHING THAT I MAY NEVER REALLY BE ABLE TO VALUE OR UNDERSTAND. THE LIST OF MY LOSSES IS REALLY LONG BUT THEN I TRY TO FORGET ABOUT ALL THOSE THINKING ‘EVERYTHING COMES WITH A PRICE TAG’.
IF BY NOW YOU HAVE STARTED THINKING THAT I DONT ENJOY ENGINEERING, I AM SORRY, I DO, I FELL IN LOVE WITH IT JUST FEW MONTHS BACK IN MY 3RD SEMESTER AND THIS LOVE WILL GO LONG!! NOW THAT IT HAS TAKEN AWAY ALL MY PASSIONS AWAY FROM ME, I WONT LET IT GO!!
AH I JUST STARTED WITH MY OWN STORY, LET ME COME STRAIGHT TO ‘ENGINNERING WOES’
THE DAY YOU ENTER AN ENGINEERING COLLEGE, YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF THINKING THAT YOU WILL GO OUT AS SOMEONE WHO WILL BE RESPECTABLE IN SOCIETY, THIS FEELING CONTINUES TO DOMINATE YOU TILL YOU GET YOUR VERY FIRST SESSIONAL TEST RESULTS!!!! LOL
THEN YOU GET LITTLE ACQUIANTED WITH THE ATMOSPHERE AND START INTROSPECTING “AH WHERE WAS I WRONG, I DID EVERYTHING AS I DID IN SCHOOL, LEARNT EVERY TOPIC, CRAMMED EVERYTHING AND EVEN PASTED SAME ON THE SHEETS” INNOCENTLY BUT INTELLIGENTLY YOU GET TO KNOW ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL POLITICAL SYSTEM RUNNING WITHIN THE COLLEGE AND SUDDENLY YOU START FEELIN PROUD OF BEING BORN IN INDIA!!! YOU COME HOME TALK BACK TO YOUR BEST FRIEND AND PARENTS AND HERE IS WHAT COMES OUT “D AS ROMANS DO!!!”, AND IN YOUR HEARTS OF HEARTS YOU DECIDE YOU WILL OVERCOME THIS AND GET SOME SOLUTION, UNFORTUNATELY YOU END UP BEING PART OF THE SYSTEM AND THAT TOO ON A LEVEL WHERE THEY CALL YOU AS ‘THE PLACEMENT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COLLEGE’!!!!
BEING IN SCHOOL YOU HAVE ONE GREAT HABBIT, I MEAN I ALWAYS LOVED IT WHEN I GOT UP AND WAITED FOR ALARM CLOCK TO RING, AH ITS ALL GONE NOW, I DON’T KNOW HOW IT WOULD VE BEEN IF I WAS AN RJ OR A DOC, BUT I BLAME IT ON ENGINEERING….TAKE IT FROM ME, I HAD NO SINGLE DAY IN LAST 3YRS WHEN I WAS TOTALLY FREE, I WAS ALWAYS WRITING A PAGE HERE AND PAGE THERE…. I REMEMBER SITTING WHOLE NIGHTS AND SIPPING TEA AND COFFEE AND EATING OUT HEADS OF MY FRIENDS ABOUT NO OF PAGES… NOW SEE THIS IS REALLY INTERESTING THE LOGIC HERE, I HEARD SOME TEACHER CONFESSING IT,”YU ALL ARE GONNA COPY PASTE SO ASSIGNMENT ASSESMENT WILL BE BASED ON VIVA” BELIEVE ME IF NOT FOR MY DECENT RAPORT IN COLLEGE I WANTED TO SHOUT OUT IN CLASS!! AND YOU KNOW FUNNY THING, LAST TIME MY MUM ASKED ME REASON OF BEING AN INSOMANIAC, I STARTED OUT WITH THIS THEORY BUT I KNOW WHAT THEY THOUGHT,”OUR BOY IS IN LOVE”…. FORGIVE ME GOD IF I AM DISRESPECTING LOVE BUT I AM NOT IN LOVE, I AM INTO ENGINEERING!!!!!!
ALL THE BEST GUYS, SESSIONAL TESTS START THIS MONDAY,THEY WILL BE ACCORDING TO THE CODES, FIRST UP 601,…..606

PART TWO WILL COME UP TO ADD TO WOES SOON

The imminent and sad demise of .net technologies!!

This topic has been quite in limelight among us all as to what is actually the better of two technologies, is it java or .net. The reason i am discussing this is cuz i stand alone in my class who has worked on java technologies and rest all had their interests in microsoft based .net. As they say the debate that air is more important or water has no relevance to fish, it is going to live in water anyway, same way with over 70% microsoft users, my points are useless.
I do not know if i am goin to regret my decision of opting for java or not but there are certain things in which java is certainly better than .net. Here i am presenting some important points with little explanation. Please do contact if any point is not clear or wrong, please do correct me, i am putting things as i ve been taught and as i ve researched a bit. . ,
THE POINTS STAND AS NAILS IN COFFIN OF .NET. . Here they are. .
1. Java applications run on multiple platforms from smallest devices to large mainframes. It runs on platforms ranging from smart cards, embedded systems, cellphones, servers(both mainframe as well as non stop)! .Net doesn, infact it is advised not to use .net applications in real time situations, they HANg UP on you like WINDOWS!
2. Java IDE'S are superior in their support for coding tasks, features like code refactoring, intention action(which .net copied and presented it as intelli sense), superior code browsing with built in code and class browser and robust automatic code completion. I wonder how many features has microsoft copied till now and added to its another new version ie beta 10VS. D argument that java copied it from .net should not arise, cuz java made that feature a part of IDE when .net was in its infancy.
3.CROSS PLATFORM INTEGRATION. . integration with other languages like perl, php or phython is achieved in java, these are not sun's creation but independent open source products so u cant present a point that they ve same creator. I can take my php script that can talk to java and run in windows and i can finally place it in linux box and ve ma work done without spending a single coin. . CAN .NET DO IT??
4. Java has retra mature and robust products that support mapping of relational data bases to objects, like top link and coco base. There is no such took in .net. And now microsoft has added something called objectspace and that too in beta, NOT MATURe enough to entrust intelligent users.
5. More deployment options with java!
There are more ways to deploy your application, like java offers you applet, webstart, x windows, midlet. What about .net? I dont know so please tell me.
6. Java applications can be compiled in one platform and run in other.
Now consider this in visual studio, .net and .net sdk ve strict user license agreement that code compiled with these cant run in non microsoft environment! Why???
I would not appreciate your views of marketing here. Lets talk engineering for God sake.
7. Java programmers and developers are ten times more in demand than .net. . You ll end up working in highly volatile environment with 10java guys and they are mad i tell u, cuz they dont drag and drop.
TO BE CONTINUED!
Suggestions and corrections are welcome!