Rob Perry of the Yankee Group told NewsFactor that Microsoft's reputation for having products that do not scale or meet enterprise standards will benefit Java. A series of high-profile legal battles and a well-documented feud have kept Microsoft and Sun Microsystems in the spotlight, and with the preliminary release of .NET , the battle has acquired new intensity. But despite the fight between Sun's Java and Microsoft's .NET, further fueled by a dispute over the exclusion of Java from Microsoft's Windows XP software, some analysts agreed that Java is alive and well. Deborah Hess, senior research analyst at Gartner, told NewsFactor that Java's maturity and proven track record will keep Sun's programming language very much at the forefront of development technology.
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