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October 25, 2001

Here's an interesting report from

Here's an interesting report from the Microsoft PDC.
There are some pieces I don't agree with - eg "All of a sudden Microsoft's position in the client market doesn't look so bleak" (I saw Microsoft's position in the client market being completely entrenched over the past few years of "thin-client" focus, where thin-client is really a misnomer for "nothing-but-Microsoft-browser-tech-client").
But, overall, .NET is now delivering a thoroughgoing broadside against Sun. More broad than I'd expected. C# and the CLR is a direct attack against Java and the JVM; Java-compatible-language .NET is "embrace and extend"; the .NET server pieces are working against J2EE; and Web Services is explicitly making a reality of Sun's mantra that "the network is the computer". If I were Sun I'd be seriously worried at this point.
Where does Groove fit into this strategic picture, though?