.NET at JavaONE

windows bios world writes: "As this article states, 'There was little love from the leaders of the Java movement toward Microsoft's new framework for creating Web services, but there were signs of accommodation among some at the conference.' One of the most popular booth-trinkets was a button with a slash through it that said .NOT. A video shown at the first keynote depicted the Java Smart Car driving circles around a Bill Gates look-alike. The back of Bill's T-shirt, of course, was emblazoned with a J-flat logo instead of J-sharp."

Comments

Who's a monopolist?

[Atrus5]

Using its own standards and APIs. As McNealy put it, "The community aspects of Sun ONE will win over .NET. It's mankind versus the monopolists."

Naming your product "Sun ONE" is pretty blatent if you ask me, at least M$ give you a break with names. Sure it uses open, standard interfaces between components but that's only because they're the minority so it's to their advantage to be interpolation. I doubt it would stay that way once they've won (I think the pun is intended). Sun is just another big company trying to make money so you can't get too upset qwith them for trying to gain market share by recruiting anti-M$ people. Hiding your monoply-in-the-making within an anti-monoply ball is the logical strategy afterall.

Another thing that bothers me is that Sun has always, at least in the public works I've seen, dismissed their competetiors and childishly called them names. The strategy of pretending that the competition isn't competition at all is a tried-and-failed one. I would much rather see Sun encourging intelligent debate and taking note of the arguments on both sides to improve their platform.