The battle on our desktops between two global corporate entities gets boring after a while. We just want to solve our business problems and get on with life. I think neither party believes it can win
The battle on our desktops between two global corporate entities gets boring after a while. We just want to solve our business problems and get on with life. I think neither party believes it can win an outright war. Ive talked to a lot of development houses on this matter and to Sun and Microsoft people too. The former tends to be quite clear that it expects its solutions to incorporate both technologies, even if it is focused on one of the two major platforms. The latter uses marketing speak about how it will be the dominant platform, but I dont think it believes it will really happen that way.
Who wins? Us.
Well win, because both parties know that interoperability of data and objects isnt optional. The world wont put up with another COM/CORBA debacle.
But this is just the start. If you thought the battle was going to be about whether IL is better than JVM, youve missed the big picture. This is a story about online service provision and a revenue model from that. Well pick up from there next month in part two of our look at the new world of .NET.