.NET SCORES OVER JAVA

.NET SCORES OVER JAVA

The server side developer community send this press release. It claimed the following.

Microsoft Visual Studio.NET platform performs “Significantly better”
Than IBM’S J2EE based web sphere studio, according to a study released by the
Middleware Company(TMC), owners of the popular Server Side Developer
Communities.

According to the report by TMC, which is a subsidiary of VERITAS SOFTWARE, the goal of the Microsoft-Commissioned study, entitled “ Comparing Microsoft .NET and IBM Web sphere/J2EE”, was to determine which framework - .NET or Web sphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) – made building a business-to-business enterprise Web Application more efficient for programmers.

TMC charged two three-man teams of developers, similarly skilled in their respective frameworks, to build an application that would create and track work orders.

The J2EE team consisted of one member with 3 years of experience on various Unix platforms, of which LINUX was one of the types, and one with roughly 4 years of experience in installing, configuring and supporting Web sphere on multiple platforms, of which LINUX was one type. 3 developers from California-base VERTIGO SOFTWARE, which specializes in building Microsoft based applications, comprised the .NET team. All had between 5 and 13 years of experience on the platform.

Team J2EE used IBM’s Rational Rapid Developer (RRD) and Web Sphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 to build two implementations. Team .NET used Visual Studio .NET running on Windows Server 2003 to create its program. The test was conducted to see which framework fared better in 4 categories: development productivity, configuration and tuning, performance, reliability and manageability.

The teams were to build an application that created and tracked work orders. From there, the work order was to be processed on a separate corporate network that takes all the order information. A second server would then act like the database while a handheld device would go to someone in a warehouse or shop who has to complete the order, which he physically puts together, accounting for time spent on the order, etc.,

While the findings provide developers with a good indication of the benefits of Windows Server 2003 over Red Hat enterprise Linux AS 2.1, the study was ostensibly designed to weigh the merits of developing enterprise applications using Visual Studio .NET or Web Sphere Studio.

The report said the integrated .NET run time features within Server 2003 saved team .NET a lot of headaches because of its built in Web Server, load balancing and session and message servers.
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