FOCAL POINT:The decision to select .Net or Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is easy - both should be supported unless the IT organization (ITO) can standardize on Microsoft (MSFT). Because only the ...

Companies, focused on a more robust and secure solution that will manage more data, tend to choose J2EE. Companies that need a solution faster, and with less business complexity, tend to choose .NET. ...

Two paths are available for migrating Java applications to .Net: upgrade them to Visual J# .Net or convert them to Visual C# .Net. Upgrading Java applications to J# is the quickest and easiest way to ...

Hackers love new platforms and programming languages. Some developers will always argue that the world is full of enough languages already. Nonetheless, from Ruby to Groovy to Scala, to less mature ...

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Who's ahead: Microsoft Corp.'s .NET or Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE)? Five years in and counting, the battle still rages with no clear victor. However, according ...

Microsoft has released a new programming tool aimed at attracting Java developers to its .Net software strategy. At its Tech Ed 2002 Europe developer conference Monday, Microsoft released the final ...

Sinclair Schuller is the co-founder and CEO of Apprenda. When was the last time you thought of David Hasselhoff? Hard to remember, right? It’s odd to think that “The Hoff” was the once chisel-jawed, ...