>>ALL of .NET is a "me too" response to Java/J2EE, albeit with incremental improvements.
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>Phhfffft. Did you read this in a java messageboard or is this an orginal thought? What does J2EE have that compares to ASP.NET Web Forms and Web Services? What does it have that compares with ADO.NET for building nTier apps?

One could also say the J2EE is a "me too" since .Net is based on COM+, which is based on MTS, which was evolutionary for middleware and caused changes to other middleware solutions.