I work for several very large telcos and I have been, so far, able to avoid both .NET and Java. Last time I wrote C# code was because Microsoft (then a client) demanded we run our application on a Windows server. I wrote a proxy that sat in front of the application (which ran on a Linux machine).

Again, you need cooler friends.

> Again, you need cooler friends.

The ones I have keep my account manager very happy.