“The problem with J2EE really is that it became very, very academic and the complexity of all these perfectly designed systems in schools does not necessarily map when you have deadlines and all kinds of other things. … We found that people said that it was 25 percent more efficient to build in ASP.NET, because they have to do all this academic crap (with J2EE).”

- Miguel de Icaza, Mono project founder, interviewed on CNET News.com