In the case of J2EE versus Microsoft .Net, it would appear that the former is in favour with Europe and thus in pole position. A new study of 150 European banks by Datamonitor, IT Strategy in Financial Services – European FSIs perspectives, reveals that 44% of European financial services institutions (FSIs) are using J2EE as their primary environment for web-enabled application development, compared with 17% using .Net.
J2EE was particularly popular among UK, French and German institutions, where web-enabled application development is most advanced. Greater prevalence of .Net was found in Spain and Italy.
Sian Jones, financial services technology analyst at Datamonitor, said: “These results don’t hold any surprises. J2EE has gained a lot of ground among top-tier FSIs thanks to the level of flexibility that it offers. By contrast .Net has come later to the market and is more likely to be favoured by the smaller banks that have traditionally been wedded to Microsoft.”
The study also revealed the preference for IBM’s WebSphere platform among those favouring the J2EE-based strategy.
