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 ...

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Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...

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 ...

COMMENTARY--I used to collect comic books (or, read a heck of a lot of them and refused to throw them away, depending on how you look at it). That's impossible, you're saying. Programmers are serious ...

With highly expressive syntax that is easy to read, write, and maintain, dynamic programming languages like Python and Ruby are extremely conducive to rapid development. Microsoft and Sun Microsystems ...

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 ...