ODBC is more egalitarian, and is accessible to programs written in a variety of languages, such as Visual Basic, .NET, C# and Fortran. JDBC only works within a Java Runtime Environment. Another key ...

The differences ... their introduction, C# and .NET remain major parts of the enterprise software world. It’s been said that C# and .NET were Microsoft’s response to Java—a managed code ...

Microsoft’s object-oriented language for .NET has closed the gap with Java in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity. Microsoft’s C# language is creeping up on Java in the Tiobe ...

In brief: According to the Tiobe index of language popularity, the gap between Java and C# is so small that if the current trends remain unchanged, C# will overtake Java in about two months.