Comparing Microsoft .NET and IBM WebSphere/J2EE

This in-depth report, titled "Comparing Microsoft .NET and IBM WebSphere/J2EE: A Productivity, Performance, Reliability and Manageability Analysis," summarizes a Microsoft-sponsored study by The Middleware Company. Also available for download is the lab report for this study, written by C2 Technology, the independent auditor that oversaw and verified all stages of the study conducted in the lab.

The Middleware Company gave two independent development teams a specification for a loosely-coupled system. Each team—one team using IBM WebSphere/J2EE running on Linux, the other team using Microsoft .NET running on Windows Server 2003—was to develop, deploy, tune, and test the system in a controlled laboratory setting.

Read all on: https://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/facts/analyses/middleware.mspx