A storm over Web services

Web architect Ganesh Prasad has written an entertaining but comprehensive LinuxToday commentary piece about the future of Web services. Prasad (surprise!) has no love for Microsoft’s .NET initiative. But he has no great affection for Java, either; the article’s next-to-last sentence says, “So take a deep breath, and hiss through clenched teeth, ‘All right, I’ll work with this %$&*(&*^ Java for now, but after we beat Microsoft…'”