InfoWorld: Microsoft says .Net usage passes Java: August 07, 2003: By Paul Krill: Application Development

InfoWorld: Microsoft says .Net usage passes Java: August 07, 2003: By Paul Krill: Application Development: "Microsoft is boasting that it has surpassed Java usage with .Net and is preparing to make its application development platform more conducive to Web services.
In a speech at the VSLive conference in New York last week, Eric Rudder, Microsoft senior vice president of server and tools, touted progress versus the rival Java platform as well as future products such as Indigo, a Web services offering. Indigo is to be discussed at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles in late-October. "