IBM mudslinging with MS over Web Services
by Volker Weber
The purpose of this paper is to respond to Microsoft's misleading white paper about creating Web Services with .Net versus IBM WebSphere V4.0 ("WebSphere"). In this white paper, Microsoft claims Visual Studio.Net offers a significant advantage over WebSphere for creating Web Services. In their attempt to support this claim, Microsoft hired a supposedly independent consulting firm to develop a Web Service using both .Net, and in Microsoft's own words, the J2EE platform with the most advanced support for XML based Web Services, WebSphere. According to Microsoft, the results of this benchmarking exercise shows the .Net is a superior platform for the development of Web Services, however, this simply is NOT the case.
In this response, we will not only show that IBM offers the superior platform for creating Web Services, but will also point out how Microsoft has attempted to mislead customers.
