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Microsoft .NET platform warming
■ Our reporter Li Jianping
In the so-called platform battle, the competition between platforms such as Microsoft .NET and J2EE has always been one of the focus of the industry. In order to attract more users to their platform, the two platform supporters have made out the decisions.
So, who is it places you? The Gartner's survey shows that .NET corporate users have increased from 33% of July last year to 37% this year, while J2EE corporate users fell by 34% to 27%. At the same time, 26% of the surveyed large enterprises are built on. Net above. J2EE is 2%. Traditionally, high-end large companies are considered as J2EE with an advantageous market. Another investigation company forrester said that in its survey conducted by 322 software decision makers in September this year, 56% of .NET as the preferred development platform, and select J2EE to 44%.
Obviously, in this platform battle, .NET has now begun to lead.
As part of it promotes the .NET platform, strengthen partnership efforts, November 24th, Microsoft Business Policy Summit Forum and 2004 Solutions Partner Summit was held in Beijing. Microsoft partners from international and domestic demonstrate the IT architecture and application solutions based on .NET platform.
.NET walks mature
"There are currently more than 70 million operating systems installed .NET Frameworks. 61% of business applications in Fortune 100 Enterprises are built on .NET platform. Microsoft's Greater China Cooperation Development Department General Manager Bai Shangjie introduced. Progress in NET.
The dominant position of the Windows operating system, the user interface advantage, and support for multiple programming languages such as Visual Basic and C , which are often considered to be .NET advantage.
But in Bai Shangjie, the advantage of .NET is not limited thereto, its unique value is more support for various terminals, allowing developers to develop software that can be fully integrated. In addition, .NET has increased productivity and higher return on investment is also a reason why it is favored. "With the release of Visual Studio.net and Windows Server System Series in 2003, .NET architecture has been mature."
Microsoft 2000 proposed .NET architecture covers its main products and is a platform that consists of a wide variety of clients. Through the .NET, developers can be integrated into the Microsoft desktop, integrated into the enterprise product and customer solutions.
According to the number published by Microsoft, the company's R & D fees increased by 20% to 30% per year, and in 2004, the amazing $ 6.8 billion. In these R & D costs, the biggest investment is in the .NET platform. According to Microsoft's planning, Microsoft's main products such as Windows XP, Windows Server, Office, Live Communication Server, and Visual Studio.Net are currently covered with new products next year: SQL Sever Yukon and Visual Studio whidbey; 2006 Microsoft's next-generation operating system Longhorn will be released.
At the time of the current enterprise software architecture, Patricia Seybold Group is: "As the mainstream architecture model of the third-generation Internet application, .NET is in dominating."
Win high-end business market
"Revenue from corporate users accounts for 40% of Microsoft's total revenue, Microsoft is an enterprise platform provider." When asked, after Microsoft turned to the enterprise market, when it was able to call the enterprise platform provider We are responsible for Microsoft Global Enterprise Customers and Partnership Deputy Vice President Vice President Wei Ximei does not proudly.
Weishang said: "We have established your own reputation in the enterprise market. At the same time, our products and programs have had a great impact on many business customers, especially large customers, bringing customers a lot of business value. At the same time, it has maintained a very good relationship with customers. "It is understood that more and more .NET platform users have been increasingly appearing for the fields of J2EE, and the fields of finance, telecommunications, etc. It has been considered to be popular in small and medium-sized enterprises to surpass J2EE in large businesses. In Wei Xi Meng's view, the value of Microsoft products is reflected in three aspects: first, Microsoft products provide a safe and manageable platform, while having high operational efficiency, low cost, second, it can put all information Workers and their teams are better integrated together, bringing efficiency to improve; in addition, the system and applications can be combined with the application through the .NET platform, and can have a wider coverage in the enterprise.
Weison introduced that Microsoft's business business has gone well. For example, in the case of 10% of the entire database market, Microsoft's growth is 11.1%, and Oracle's growth is 2.4%, IBM has grown by 2.5%. Among them, Microsoft's top ten database customers belong to the world's largest top 20 database users; on the server, Windows also has great advantages, according to IDC data, 62% of the server runs on the Windows platform. Obviously, Microsoft has achieved remarkable results in the field of high-end calculations.
For the user's concern, Weixun admittred: "Our system is attacked by the situation. But this is not a Microsoft's question, but the industry problem." According to Weixun, since 2003 After the reliance calculation initiative, Microsoft began to write a safer software. The only operating system launched later is Windows Server 2003, which integrates new security features, much more secure than past versions. In the new version, in addition to engineering design, it also reflects new advantages in deployment.
Data from the survey company once again verified the viewpoint of Wendon: In the investigation of the Gartner, from the operating system perspective, the application running in the Windows platform (36.5%) exceed UNIX (35.3%); from the platform angle, choose Microsoft .NET is 25%, more than 22% of J2EE.
At the 2004 Microsoft Solutions Partner Summit, 30 international independent software developers from Microsoft overseas demonstrate overseas success solutions. Support from software and service companies in different fields, expands solutions based on Microsoft .NET platform products, also showcase Microsoft's long-term progress in enterprise markets.
Microsoft only does platform supplier
Microsoft launched the MBS (Business Solution) initiatives in China shortly, many partners have issued questions and stress: "Is Microsoft's partners to grab business?" The Weisian, who is responsible for domestic partners, is laughing with "Review", I have not done it: "Microsoft has clearly only the platform supplier."
Weison said: Microsoft will not provide specialized applications in the specific industry. Microsoft provides a good platform that supports software developers and integrators to develop solutions that meet industry applications. "Microsoft's MBS needs partners to conduct some industry development."
Microsoft has a number of investment plans for China. Wei Ximeng said: "How many research and development investment in Microsoft will face China, how much Microsoft business is in China, how much investment in China, and in China's development partners, we have many years of investment plans. "
In China, there are about 200 software suppliers and more system integrators certified by Microsoft. For "Microsoft has created $ 1 in foreign countries, it will bring $ 8, while domestic partners only have $ 4," Bai Shangjie said: "With the growth of China's software economy, Microsoft hopes to give Partners have brought more. "As of this year Microsoft, four global strategic partners were developed in China. Just after the news disclosure, the share price of the relevant company has increased, and it can be seen that people have a lot of expectations to Microsoft's value to domestic partners. As a part of Microsoft Promotion Software, the partner summit has signed 19 cooperation memorandum, involving six foreign independent software developers (ISVs) and 13 local system integrators (SI). The two sides will create a further cooperation with agility companies, creating safety and flexible IT solutions.
