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Oracle and Sun Team Up to Provide .NET Alternative

Posted by Zonk on from the other-white-meat dept.

segphault writes "Ars Technica has an article about the new partnership between Sun and Oracle, designed to provide an alternative to .NET." From the article: "According to Ellison and McNealy, their mutual goal is the production of a complete Java-centric enterprise datacenter architecture that leverages Solaris 10 and Oracle's Fusion middleware. Designed specifically as an alternative to Microsoft's .NET technology stack, the new platform is competitively priced and based on robust frameworks."

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  1. Re:Pricing... by Decaff · · Score: 4, Informative

    For example, VB programmer may with some training be able to move his old VB code's business logic to .NET server.

    It is not just a matter of training - VB.NET has many differences from VB.

    and that way looking far ahead of Java where you can only 'plug in' with Java only.

    I really don't know how people come up with statements like this. The facts could not be more different. There are more than 200 different languages than run on the JVM. A large proportion of them integrate well with Java, and can used Java classes and libraries. There are implementations of LISP, Ruby, Python, Basic, Modula, Pascal, Fortran and even COBOL. There are currently far more languages implemented on the JVM than on .NET.

  2. It's the developers! (Re:As a sysadmin... ) by MisterP · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm in the same boat. I look after everything under the sun. Everything from shitty little 2 server ASP websites to 20 server clusters with TB's of backend disk.

    I have java servlets used by over 2000 people 24x7. When was the last time I had to restart the JVM? Dec 2002. I also have 8 java (jsp) web applications used by 200,000 ISP customers 24x7. JVM uptimes range from 2 years to several months. On the flipside, i have applications that need to be restarted every week.

    The difference? The developers.