It moved from technology to the end-user realm. All those things came together in 2005.
I still think that Visual Studio .NET is superior to any of the Java tools for Web Services, even if it's only by a little. Microsoft has a clear advantage for rapid application development.
The arrival of solid development tools makes AJAX ready for the mainstream market.
The problem is (that) in order for these third-party vendors to put out competing products, they would have to throw out a whole bunch of their old code.
Microsoft is really going to focus on their partnerships throughout the entire conference. They've really courted a bunch of third-party vendors to integrate their tools into Visual Studio .NET. The list of third-party tools announced (at Tech Ed) is going to be long.
This year is a coming-out party, really, for PHP, PHP is the king of the Web development world.
Java Studio Creator 2 is an update to Sun's Java Studio product, which is a new generation tool attempting to simplify Java development. Java Studio Creator 2 is trying to make the Java platform more attractive to developers coming from a Microsoft Windows or 4GL tool environment.
