Three years ago, as he began planning the SOA implementation for the Boise, Idaho-based global engineering and construction company, he investigated the pros and cons of using .NET versus J2EE as the development environment.
"I really felt that J2EE was more scaleable and more robust at the time," he said. "I think that's borne out over the last three years. Certainly .NET is coming along, but we chose J2EE."
Specifically, he selected Oracle Corp.'s Fusion Middleware, including its BPEL manager, enterprise service bus and Oracle JDeveloper. However, that didn't mean that he was able to ignore Microsoft.
