Matt Loney of ZDNet reports that IBM says that if programmers have to make any transition, it should be to Java, as .Net simply does not make sense for heterogenous environments. Loney writes . . .

“The rift between IBM and Microsoft over Web services widened further over the weekend when Web services evangelists from each company clashed over the relative merits of .Net and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) for building applications that can talk to each other over the Internet.”

“Edwards' biggest criticism was levied at Microsoft's .Net programming model. . . In particular, said Edwards, Microsoft's decision to support dozens of programming languages was fundamentally flawed. “Programmers don't come screaming to me saying 'I want five different programming languages,'” he said, stressing the wide acceptance of Java.”

“. . . IBM will support Microsoft's .Net Framework where it makes sense. “But what is not going to happen,” he said, “is that applications that companies have invested in over the past 30 years will be thrown away.” The IBM approach, he said, is that companies need to build Web services on an open framework that can be completely extensible.”

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