TSS.NET: According to the latest numbers released by Microsoft, .NET adoption is continuing at a brisk pace with more than 2.5 Million .NET Developers worldwide and more than 90% of development being targeted for the Windows platform. Based on numbers quoted by John Montgomery, Program Manager at Microsoft, more than 60 of the Fortune 100 use .NET for internal development. A Forrester report also states that 56% of enterprises in North America are choosing .NET as opposed to only 46% choosing J2EE. An interesting note, of the ~6 Million developers currently targeting the Windows platform, over 4 Million of those are Visual Basic developers.