Oracle and Sun Team Up to Provide .NET Alternative

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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[ZenShadow]

The battle never ended. You just got used to the sound of the cannons.

Microsoft was not trying to make Java proprietary; Microsoft was trying to make it integrate properly into Windows. If Sun had worked with them instead of against them, Java would probably be a very popular platform for desktop applications. Instead, it's gotten itself pidgeonholed on the server side.

Meanwhile, as a direct result of Sun's lack of cooperation, Microsoft decided to build their own wheel. .NET is a *direct* response to Java. And Microsoft took the time to do it right, which has a sinigifcant possibility of killing off new Java development in the long run. .NET is light years ahead of Java in terms of ease of development -- which is what matters to people who are responsible for making money.

Technologies that work well on the desktop do tend to find their way onto the server. Just look at Windows for proof of that.

--S