title: Are there equivalences between Microsoft and Oracle/Sun technologies?
body: <p>is it possible to say what are the Microsoft equivalents technologies compared to Sun?</p>
  
  <p>For example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Microsoft                          |  Oracle/Sun
  ---------------------------------------------------------------
  Visual Studio                      |  JDeveloper,NetBeans //thanks justin,danswain
  IIS                                |  Apache,Tomcat,Oracle WebCenter,JBossWeb,Glassfish,Weblogic,Jetty //thanks Yishai,danswain
  ASP.NET                            |  JSF //thanks justin
  SQL Server                         |  Oracle DB, JavaDB(*) ?
  ADO.NET Entity Data Model          |  Java Persistence API?
  ASP.NET MVC                        |  Spring Framework //thanks danswain
  Windows Presentation Foundation    |  Java FX //thanks justin
  Windows Communication Foundation   |  EJB (JAX-WS, JRMI, JMS)(**) //thanks danswain,justin,Yishai
  ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit               |  ADF Faces,JQuery //thanks danswain,Yishai
  Reporting Services/RDLC            |  Oracle Reports Services //thanks Yishai
  LINQ to SQL Classes                |  Hibernate project?
  Windows Forms                      |  Java Swing //thanks justin
  XAML                               |  Java FX script //thanks danswain
  CLR                                |  Java VM //thanks Brian
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>(*) <a href="http://developers.sun.com/javadb/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://developers.sun.com/javadb/</a> (the ancient Apache Derby?)</p>
  
  <p>( **) as said by the guys there wouldn't be an exact correspondent</p>