Sun: We are afraid of Microsoft J#.NET
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft on Tuesday released the second beta of Visual J# .Net, a tool that will allow programmers to use the Java language to build software that works only on Microsoft's .Net technology.
However, Sun has raised concerns about Visual J# .Net in its recent private antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. Microsoft says the Sun suit will have no impact on Visual J# .Net, though. "The Sun lawsuit doesn't affect the release of Visual J# .Net at all," said Tony Goodhew, Microsoft's product manager for the .Net Framework.
"There is no Sun intellectual property used in the product, nor do we make any claims that it will produce applications that pass any Sun tests or run on any Sun-licensed platform."