Whatever helps you sleep at night...
In an article posted on eweek the CEO of BEA has the following comment about .NET
eWEEK: Let's talk about competition overall, not just IBM. How do you compete with .Net?
Chuang: Well, there's no competition now because the .Net server doesn't exist. I've been through this several times with Microsoft. Back in 1996 there was a technology called Microsoft Transaction Server. We were doing Tuxedo, just barely moving into our CORBA-based third-generation object-oriented transaction, and we sat around and said, "Oh my God. Microsoft is coming out with MTS. How are we going to survive?" And people asked me the same question. And then MTS disappeared. I'm not sure .Net will be the same, but the same symptoms are clearly happening.
Mr. Chuang has an interesting (and misinformed) take on .NET. I could spend an hour picking this paragraph apart, but I think the funniest part is the comment about there being no competition between BEA and .NET because .NET server has not shipped. Is he for real? Yo, Mr Chuang, .NET server is an Operating System, not a middle-tier application server. Many, many, many production web services and remoting components built using .NET are running on Win2k server boxes.
And just when did MTS disappear! I guess when it was rolled up and extended becoming COM+! Which, by the way, is still a viable, rock solid way of creating middle tier components without .NET (or even with it).
I'll be the first to admit J2EE bring some great architectural concepts to the table, and as a .NET architect I believe there are lessons to be learned from some of those concepts. But unfortunately inaccurate comments like this one propagate ignorance about .NET into the Java community, which does no one any good
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