Oracle to buy BEA for $8.5 billion – How .NET community perceives that - Updated

Today BEA Corporation announced that Oracle acquired the company's shares for $8.5 billion. That's a big money.  BEA makes middleware applications. Weblogic Server is its strongest mainstream product. Aqualogic BPM (ESB) comes second which supports .NET technology for interoperability and service bus aware applications.


There is no doubt that this news will be perceived by many as good and bad news as will. I work on Weblogic for quite some time now, and can surely say it is a great product.

There is no doubt that .NET technology is great too. I think .NET is now mature enough to enter the enterprise arena. But I wonder why we don't see companies build enterprise products such BEA's (in size).  Is it because we don't have such J2EE specification, or is it because .NET is only stream from Microsoft. Or perhaps we can't run .NET on cross platforms. May be there is no need to hit enterprise market now. Too many questions!!!


If we hypothetically assumed Microsoft is targeting medium to small business as most of people say, aren't there any others who are willing to implement enterprise systems (perhaps Middleware) using .NET.


I know there are few out there, but I mean why we always hear Java first in enterprise business then .NET second.

I hope you share your thoughts about this, so we might find out the answer :)

 

[Update]

The following is a graph represents a comparison between .NET and J2EE by Gartner the world's leading information technology research and advisory. 5-9 November Cannes-France Symposium ITXPO 2006

 


 

3 Comments

  • I thought it was .NET that was the #1 now for ent apps, seems to be a different story every 6 months depending who you get oyur stas from.

    I know its not related, or perhaps is but O'Reilly I read a while back (prob a year ago) that .NET books were selling the most.

    Learn both I guess.

  • I made some update. The information is old but according to Gartner J2EE dominance will not significantly change at least for the next five years!!???

  • I have no idea what the enterprise folks use or need and can't find in .NET and VS, but maybe you guys could find out. Just by looking at the graphs you posted: "Enterprise Flexibility" -- what exactly is lacking here and how can you address this? Also "security" is this a problem with .NET or Windows? These are areas that should be easy to investigate.

    As a personal guess I'd say that one factor, that I'm hitting more and more, is the very fact that VS is so RAD centric. Speaking of ASP.NET there are some things that require the designer for example and you can't get away without it. When you reach a certain level of complexity the designer is what slows you down the most rather than help. I can't help but feel that VS is targeted toward small to medium projects. You can work around most of the issues, but it requires a LOT of work / research. My impression is that Java is more enterprise oriented by default; just my 2c.

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