A Java truce could lead to an XML war infoworld.com
The Infoworld opinions have been a little dull lately, but this one seems worth noting, not that I totally believe it.
As spring approaches, the ongoing cold war between the proponents of Java and the folks in Redmond, Wash., is showing signs of thawing. Driving that process is a realization within Microsoft that there's not much it can do at this point to halt Java's momentum. In fact, the biggest story at last week's JavaOne conference was the sheer number of developers who showed up. For the first time, the attendance at a Java conference easily rivaled attendance at any Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference.
Until the release date for NT 5.0 started slipping, Microsoft had hoped to establish the Distributed Component Object Model and the Microsoft Transaction Server as de facto standards before Enterprise JavaBeans architectures could take hold. That doesn't seem likely anymore. That's why Microsoft, as noted in Page One articles this week by Niall McKay and Jeff Walsh, needs to take a more conciliatory approach toward Enterprise Java in the form of alliances with middleware companies.
I wonder. I've said the war on Java was one Microsoft couldn't win, but I don't see them giving up. Though it seemed like they were getting mighty quiet on the subject a month or so ago. As to the conciliatory approach toward Enterprise Java, sounds pretty hypothetical to me. XML, I don't know much about, it's been floating around for a while but the question of whose X seems unavoidable.
Cheers, Dan. |
