Microsoft official hails .NET
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft's Dan'l Lewin, corporate vice president for .Net business development, touted the company's .Net platform for development of Web services, stressing its interoperability while criticizing the rival Java platform. Presenting a keynote address at InfoWorld's Next-Generation Web Services II: The Applications conference here, Lewin stressed that .Net is a key component of how Microsoft is addressing Web services standards and that Microsoft's development stack will interoperate with the rival J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) stack. .Net supports multiple programming languages, unlike the Java platform, which uses only the Java language, Lewin said. This, he said, presents Sun with a proprietary advantage. "In the .Net strategy, you program in any language you want," said Lewin.