Nick Hortovanyi : Will Microsoft be relevant in the SaaS world? As some reading this might know I'm a bit tired of Microsoft everywhere, so I apologize in advance if you perceive some negative sentiment towards Microsoft. I have been like that since 2001/2002, when .NET was announced/released and everyone came knocking on my door - you have to look at this. I'd turn around and say Why? Its an earlier version of what I'm working on with J2EE. I'd already worked out how to use EJBs and related technology properly by that time and how to specify J2EE projects for delivery (hard, hard work getting to that point though) using geographically distributed development teams. Open Source Unleashed: Identity and open source communities.