US Report: Java targets MS in the enterprise | ZDNet
Summary
At stake is control over the burgeoning market for Internet applications that live in the middle tier of a multilevel client/server architecture. Microsoft said last week it will appeal the latest court ruling requiring it to ship products compatible with Suns Java. Although Sun declined to divulge its partners, licensees say they include IBM, Oracle Corp., Novell, and application server vendors such as BEA Systems Inc. and Novera. By standardising APIs, Sun is levelling the playing field for application servers -- including its own NetDynamics -- and signalling that it will not compete against its licensees. "Our licensees came to us in June and told us there were two fundamental models for building enterprise-class components, and we had to rethink ours," said Sun product line manager Bill Roth.
