.NET ADVANTAGES

· .NET has Microsoft's A-team marketing it

· .NET released their web services story before J2EE did, and thus has some mind-share

· .NET has a better story for shared context today than J2EE

· .NET has an awesome tool story with Visual Studio.NET

· .NET has a simpler programming model, enabling rank-and-file developers to be productive without shooting themselves in the foot

· .NET gives you language neutrality when developing new eBusiness applications, whereas J2EE makes you treat other languages as separate applications

· .NET benefits from being strongly interweaved with the underlying operating system