Oracle and Sun Microsystems have teamed up to try to snatch away Microsoft's customers. In a bid to convince Microsoft developers to support the Java programming language, Oracle and Sun announced they are jointly marketing a set of new tools that easily converts Microsoft-based software into Java software. Java is supported by Oracle, Sun, BEA Systems, IBM and others as competition for Microsoft's own proprietary method of writing software.The new software tools will translate Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASPs) into Java Server Pages (JSPs) without forcing developers to rewrite their software code. The rival technologies both allow "dynamic" Web content--content that repeatedly changes, such as stock quotes or weather forecasts--to appear on Web pages. The new tools are aimed at moving customers to Oracle's application-server software, technology that runs e-commerce and other Web site transactions.
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