Are there equivalences between Microsoft and Oracle/Sun technologies? [closed]

Question

is it possible to say what are the Microsoft equivalents technologies compared to Sun?

For example:

Microsoft                          |  Oracle/Sun
---------------------------------------------------------------
Visual Studio                      |  JDeveloper,NetBeans //thanks justin,danswain
IIS                                |  Apache,Tomcat,Oracle WebCenter,JBossWeb,Glassfish,Weblogic,Jetty //thanks Yishai,danswain
ASP.NET                            |  JSF //thanks justin
SQL Server                         |  Oracle DB, JavaDB(*) ?
ADO.NET Entity Data Model          |  Java Persistence API?
ASP.NET MVC                        |  Spring Framework //thanks danswain
Windows Presentation Foundation    |  Java FX //thanks justin
Windows Communication Foundation   |  EJB (JAX-WS, JRMI, JMS)(**) //thanks danswain,justin,Yishai
ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit               |  ADF Faces,JQuery //thanks danswain,Yishai
Reporting Services/RDLC            |  Oracle Reports Services //thanks Yishai
LINQ to SQL Classes                |  Hibernate project?
Windows Forms                      |  Java Swing //thanks justin
XAML                               |  Java FX script //thanks danswain
CLR                                |  Java VM //thanks Brian

(*) http://developers.sun.com/javadb/ (the ancient Apache Derby?)

( **) as said by the guys there wouldn't be an exact correspondent

Answer 1

Here are a few:

Visual Studio               |        NetBeans
IIS                         |        Glassfish
.NET                        |        Java (platform)
ASP.NET                     |        JSP
ASP.NET MVC                 |        JSF / ADF
ADO.NET Entity Data Model   |        Java Persistence API (JPA) / TopLink
SQL Server                  |        Oracle DB / PostgreSQL / MySQL
Reporting Services          |        Oracle Reports* / Oracle BI Publisher
WCF                         |        JAX-WS*, JRMI*, and JMS*
WPF                         |        JavaFX*
Windows Forms               |        Java Swing
Windows                     |        Solaris

References:

• JavaFX
• Oracle Reports
• WCF equivalents - There is no direct equivalent, rather there are disparate technologies that can accomplish the same tasks. See comment below for a detailed explanation.

Answer 2

    Microsoft                          |  Sun
---------------------------------------------------------------
Visual Studio                      |  Netbeans.org,Eclipse,IntelliJ,JDeveloper
IIS                                |  Glassfish,Tomcat,Apache etc
ASP.NET                            |  JSP, JSF + many others
SQL Server                         |  Oracle,MySql,Derby
ADO.NET Entity Data Model          |  Hibernate
ASP.NET MVC                        |  Spring+ many others
Windows Presentation Foundation    |  Java FX
Windows Communication Foundation   |  JAX-WS
ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit               |  JQuery
Reporting Services/RDLC            |  ???
LINQ to SQL Classes                |  Hibernate
Windows Forms                      |  Swing

You might notice that there are far more options on the Java side, not all of which are from the Sun/Oracle mothership. I'm a .Net developer but like to keep an eye on the Java world, because quite often there will eventually be a .Net version of a java technology (take Hibernate) which then spawns NHibernate which then spawns Microsoft to wake up and create Linq2Sql and Entity framework. Which people then compare to NHibernate and moan enough that Microsoft rapidly rev it and sometimes come up with something pretty cool.

Then there's the languages

Microsoft CLR    |    Sun JVM
-----------------------------
C#               |    Java
F#               |    Scala
Iron Ruby        |    JRuby
Iron Python      |    Jython
VB.Net           |    VB?
???              |    Clojure
???              |    Rhino Javascript
???              |    Groovy
XAML             |    JavaFX script

there's a lot to learn on both sides, my advice is to try play with some stuff from the other side. I've been playing with Java on Android (not technically Sun JVM) and even looking a Scala.

Good luck either way if you're a Java guy you should look at MS stuff (Linq and F#) and a .Net guy should maybe look at Scala and any of the numerous frameworks.

Answer 3

The thing is that the Java orbit has many alternatives. I can't imagine a reason that someone would be interested in what is made specifically by Sun/Oracle, except in some enterprise companies that get a (false in my view) comfort from having things from one vendor. So I think your question can be addressed by either referencing what is an Oracle technology, or what is generally available.

Microsoft -> Oracle -> Java Options

Windows -> Solaris -> Windows/*nix/MacOS

Visual Studio -> NetBeans+JDeveloper -> Eclipse+Intellij IDEA (and a few more)

IIS -> Apache + app servers* + Tomcat + Oracle WebCenter Suite -> JBossWeb+Jetty+more

ASP.NET -> JSF -> There are literally too many web frameworks in java to name.

ADO.NET Entity Data Model -> JPA/EJB3 Entity Beans? -> Hibernate + more

ASP.NET MVC -> Redundant with ASP.NET, you won't get an exact line of difference - there are many variations on this in Java, some are more like ASP.NET and some are more like ASP.NET MVC.

Windows Presentation Foundation -> JavaFX+Swing -> SWT

Windows Communication Foundation -> EJB3 Session Beans (+@WebService) -> Axis at least deserves mention here.

ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit -> ADF Faces -> A whole lot of player here. RichFaces, ICEFaces, jMaki

Reporting Services/RDLC -> Oracle Reports Services -> A whole host of options written in Java.

LINQ to SQL Classes -> I doubt there is an equivalent (see here) - After Java 7 things might get closer -> On the JVM, scala will get you there at the moment.

Windows Forms -> Not different than WPF above, although if you are looking for a GUI builder, see the Visual Studio equivalents.

On the "everything from one vendor" side, besides Oracle, IBM can post a showing in almost all of these things. They may not be the official definer in some of these, but they make their own JVM, have their own operating systems, etc.

Note that Microsoft has no equivalent to an Application Server exactly, but they are big on the Java side. Oracle has two at the moment -> Glassfish and Weblogic. In general, there is JBoss, Orion and Websphere off the top of my head.

Answer 4

Sun bought mySQL which would be a SQL Server alternative. Also, Struts seems to be the standard MVC framework for Java.