[Fractal Trader]

Hmm...I wonder how an unreleased (and commercially unavailable) version of software can claim to be faster than Java?

I forgot! They were comparing it against an OLD version of Java!

[SamAdams76]

Microsoft really has their act together. I seem them with revenues of $100,000,000,000 a year by the end of this decade.

[TopQuark]

Hmm...I wonder how an unreleased (and commercially unavailable) version of software can claim to be faster than Java?

Sorry, Mr. Mandelbrot, but I am apparently missing the point: what does commercial realease have to do with tests?

[ikka]

It's a floor wax, a dessert topping and a Bass-o-matic!

Seriously, I think they have a bunch of stuff written for it, but will yank a lot out of it when they actually ship it. The yanked code will either be sold in a more-expensive edition, or become a "feature to be added" in the next release.

[zeugma]

Vaporware and FUD!

Heck of a way to make billions of dollars, but someone has to destroy any non-microsoft thought.

[JRandomFreeper]

I would say something witty here, but I don't understand geekage. I'm just a cook..... Now. ;>)

/john (label me laid-off)

[MCH]

I'm by no means a fan of Micro$oft, but any competition for Sun's J2EE framework is a good thing. If MS wants to really hit J2EE & Java big, they should be focusing on performance.

The performance level of the entire Sun-driven Java community is a travesty. Naysayers will always point out how Java is so much faster these days due to better JIT compilers & the like, but the reality is that in the computer world, Sun's hardware performance SUCKS relative to the other offerings, and most implementations of software written in Java REALLY SUCKS in terms of performance. Granted, some Java code can be eventually tweaked to run reasonably fast, but most implementations by non-experts have absolutely DISMAL performance levels.

J2EE & Java are merely plots by Sun to sell more & more of their crappy low-performing systems in the never-ending quest for Java-based software that moves faster than a snail's pace. If they can deliver, the performance issue is ripe for exploitation by Micro$oft's .NET & C# counterattack, as well as for any other vendor able & willing to take them on.

[BuddhaBoy]

Or, maybe you could learn to read?

The .NET Framework and languages have been released for more than a year now.

The .NET Server, is what is coming out next year. C# has proven in every availible benchmark to be faster than Java.

[Abcdefg]

When I accepted the EULA for a Media Player security patch several weeks ago, I had to agree that I would not divulge the results of any benchmark tests of the .NET framework without prior written consent from Microsoft.

If you clicked on any of Microsoft's EULA's, released in the last few months, you probably also agreed to those conditions.

[thedugal]

.NET has been hyper-hyped by all the IT talking heads, but I just don't see any reson to go rushing in. I will probably be forced to start working with it on some level next year, but for now, I'd rather wait.