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Latest informal survey of IT managers has J2EE beating out .NET for web services appplication 78-22%.

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Polling 120 IT executives in early December, Giga Information Group, based in Cambridge, Mass., found that 78 percent of the group viewed J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) server software as the most effective platform for building and deploying Web services.

Microsoft's .Net, which enables users to build Web services for Windows server operating systems, accounted for 22 percent of the votes.

"Frankly, I found the results rather surprising," said Mike Gilpin, an analyst at Giga, who surveyed the group. "In February, we did the same study with a different group. At the time, Microsoft came out No. 1."
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