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The fight for deep customer commitments among the major application platform vendors is in full swing. As BEA Systems, IBM, and Oracle, along with other J2EE platform providers, focus on the breadth and integration of their platforms, immediate support for the latest J2EE standards release has become less important than in the past. Integration of new features with the J2EE standards is now the challenge. Open source providers and -- surprise -- Sun Microsystems will increasingly fill the need for low-cost J2EE servers with the latest J2EE features. Microsoft will roll out its first truly integrated platform with the new release of BizTalk Server 2004 but will continue to lag behind the J2EE vendors.

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