Central Acadiana JVM User Group

I am attempting to set up a JVM user group here in Lafayette, LA.  Central Acadiana JVM User Group will hold it's first meeting this upcoming Monday at Buffalo Wild Wings in Lafayette, LA.

I come from Denver where the JVM is very popular.  Most of the work I have done and the people I have talked to in Denver are doing it right; in a more light-weight way.  I imagine most parts of the country are doing JVM work are using heavy application servers from Oracle or IBM.  I haven't done that since 2004.  Anything I've done since then that needs to go over HTTP runs inside Tomcat.  

I think Java is big in Denver because of the telecommunications background.  People worked with C and Unix.  A transition to Java made more sense than .NET.

In Lafayette, as far as I can tell .NET is big for enterprise development.  There is a lot of embedded development going on and that of course is down in C.  There's also some LAMP and ColdFusion.

So yeah, I'll let you know how it goes.  As you can tell from the icon I chose for the meetup, I don't expect a lot of people to join in.  If another human shows up interested in the JVM I'll change the icon to something other than the forever alone guy.