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How easy is it to use C# on a (shudder) Oracle Solaris box?

(edit) In all honesty, skennedy makes a very good point. C# does seem to be gaining popularity. (And yes I'm aware of the Mono project.) Frankly, I just don't trust Microsoft. There have been compatibility issues with migrating between early versions of the .NET framework, and the end of Visual Basic left a bad taste in many mouths.

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If you are using C#, you are using a Windows box. But you can tie into Oracle using the ODBC connection.

Maybe it depends on your specific needs, but I am not sure why you would want any products you develop (regardless of the programming language) to share server resources with the Oracle database. My teams always separate the product load across servers and tiers. If you can afford the $20,000 per processor for Oracle, hopefully, you have multiple tiers to put your code elsewhere.

I simply meant that Solaris is now an Oracle property - not that they're Oracle DB boxes.

Ack. Still trying to get used to replacing all mentions of "Sun" with "Oracle". Sorry for the misunderstanding.

C# would put me in the money if I go .NET after school. But is it used enough in applications similar to Java in Hadoop to make it worth learning?

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