A Sun Microsystems Inc. executive told a federal judge on Tuesday that archrival Microsoft Corp. could use its .NET Web-based services strategy to thwart competition and extend its monopoly power to the Internet.

According to an article from Reuters, Sun Microsystems is feeling pretty threatened by Microsoft's .NET.

Sun's chief strategy office, Jonathon Schwartz feels that there needs to be very tough antitrust restrictions put on Microsoft because it can use Windows and IE which is very dominant in the market to promote their .NET platform over Sun's Java programming language.

This is a great article that covers this story in more detail, so definitely check it out and post your opinions, I'd like to hear what you think. Is Microsoft using reasonable business tactics to get their .NET platform to become succesful or are they really starting to monopolize the market? We've seen what happened with IE and Netscape.

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Well, judging from the people I've been around, The sole reason IE has dominance is because of bundleing. If the users actually liked downloading IE, you would expect them to download the security patches, upgrades, and such. I don't see that happening. I have also heard. "I like netscape, but I don't want to download and install it. IE is already there." or "you mean there is something else besides the 'e' icon?" or similiar to that. So I think Sun has very good reason to be afraid.

But check out this article at the register about .NET being dead. Link. I haven't been paying much attention to .NET because I wasn't planing to participate in it, so I appreciate comments on how that link affects that.

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