A Comparison of Sun's Java 2 Enterprise Edition (j2ee) and Microsoft's .Net Framework Using the Porter's Five Forces Model of Competition

A Comparison of Sun’s Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Microsoft’s .NET Framework using the Porter’s Five Forces Model of Competition

Abstract: A Strategic Management Comparison of Sun's Java 2 Enterprise Edition and Microsoft's Dot.Net Architecture using the Porter's Five Forces Model of Competition. What will be compared is who are their competitors in their industry, barriers to entry for other companies that want to deliver enterprise business applications, threats of substitutes for either technology, their suppliers, and their customers.

1. Introduction

This paper will do a comparison of two major enterprise development platforms that belong to Sun’s Java 2 Enterprise Edition and Microsoft’s Dot.Net Enterprise Architecture. The comparison will be based on how Sun and Microsoft position their technologies in the open market. From a business viewpoint, the model that will be used to compare these technologies is based on Michael Porter’s Five Forces Model of Competition. “In order to