For those who havent seen this
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-10-28-003-20-OP-LF-MS
is a very good discussion of where the web is going and how we have some
control of the path that it takes. The article is well written and provides
a very good explanation of both .NET and J2EE. Well worth the long read.
Jim