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The Wall Street Journal article Computer Languages Multiply Amid Mixed feelings was picked up by other papers around the country.

This code cornucopia is great fun for programmers, because they can find a language to suit their every whim. For Microsoft, though, it is yet another challenge. One of the keys to the company's success is its close work with -- some say control of -- software developers. Microsoft would like nothing better than for programmers to do all their work in .Net, which is the company's system for writing code.

While .Net is still much more widely used than some of the newer entries, Microsoft's lock on developers is jeopardized with each new convert to a development system other than .Net. Sun has a similar problem, since it has trumpeted Java as the Microsoft alternative and may now see potential Java developers choosing upstarts instead.