[old-ager]

Even after a rewrite of the Java J2EE Petstore by one of the top J2EE consultants, C# .NET Pet Shop is still much faster, handles more than twice the user load, requires far less code (2k lines vs 14k lines), and comes in at half the $ / transaction. Hats off to the Middleware Company for their objectivity and honesty. Java Religionists, start your FUD-throwers! ;-)

[old-ager]

[dheretic]

The only problem with DotNET is that there isn't a MS-independent implementation. Mono:: looks promising though and Borland announced that they may be using it as the foundation for their DotNET projects on UNIX. Of course as we all know only godless communists and flaming homosexuals use UNIX whereas only good, clean-cut, god-fearing capitalists use Microsoft products (lol that's such an oxymoron, "god-fearing capitalist....")

[ThinkDifferent]

Refuted here. Basically the J2EE implementation was not optimized at all, and used a number of clearly bad design techniques.

[BuddhaBoy]

I am a huge fan of .NET.

But in fairness, the J2EE implementation was anything BUT optimized. Many basic architectural mistakes were made, and for the sake of credibility, this whole set of results should be thrown out.

It doesnt benefit Microsoft to show an optimized solution against one who's coders didnt know what they were doing.