Web Services Making Software Coexist?

jgeelan writes "Despite the competitive uproar, coexistence of J2EE and .NET will be the norm and most sophisticated IT organizations will deploy on both development platforms. Who says so? No less an authority than the CTO of J2EE powerhouse BEA Systems, Scott Dietzen, writing in this month's Web Services Journal. Dietzen acknowledges that an ongoing conflict is in progress between Java and C# and between J2EE and the .NET server family and is refeshingly honest, admitting that "there is some truth to the 'write once, test everywhere' complaint against Java." His overall conclusion: ".NET is finding a sweet spot for programmed user interfaces, while J2EE continues to enjoy its sweet spot for server-side applications." Unusual honesty by someone so highly placed. Isn't this just what the software industry needs more of, in these increasingly interoperable times?"

Comments

Since when have .Net/C# proven themselves?

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I'm sorry, but for all the "honesty" of this article, Dietzen is trying to act as if there is an equivalence of evolution between .Net and J2EE, and Java and C#. Despite the huge Microsoft push, there is still an enormous amount of development of .Net and C# that still needs to come, and a significant amount of widespread acceptance/usage before they should be included in the same article.

Java and J2EE are realities that real world developers have been working on for years. Years.

Have C# and .Net even been fully documented yet? How many months do you have to have worked with them to be considered old dog on the development team? Have they been in the wild, real world tested yet? Are they really anything other then Microsoft marketing concepts that they're giving the full court press to?

Windows has a place

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which is more controversial, "Linux and Windows both have their place" or

"Linux on the desktop is dead! Windows on the server is dead!"

You have three statements. Only the first is contraversial, the second and third are silly. You'll put M$ junk on my computers over my dead body, though you may want to. Linux works just fine on my desktop and generally lives much longer there than most other software on other desktops. Microsoft has never made a useful server platform. Controvery requires credibility. Credibility depends on knowledge and honesty.

I absolutly hate M$ interfaces which are trending towards your worst custom VB nighmare. Big 16 color butons with hieroghphs instead of words. Awfull tabed dialongs with scroll bars on the side. We are gettin a package like this where I work. Some kind of expensive proriatory Unix server with a nasty little OLE/VB/Access client. Barf. It looks so easy to break, bug and rip off, the company is going to loose money coming and going on it. First they will buy it, then people will break it and steal things, then M$ will break the clients and the cycle will repeat.