1.	I was surprised, in a way, that Microsoft's announcements on Thursday didn't include Sun and IBM, both of whom have backed SOAP, which is the technology underlying Dot-Net.
2.	As a partner in the SOAP process, I want to extend a hand to these two companies, who have been instrumental in accelerating the adoption of SOAP.
3.	IBM co-authored the spec and did the first implementation. Sun went through their more recent animosity with Microsoft, presumably seeing the good SOAP can do for Java, and endorsed it anyway.
4.	(When the Sun announcement came, I asked "Did hell freeze over too?" ;->)
5.	Without Sun's and IBM's participation, Andreessen's position might have some power. If it were my stage, Microsoft would have been there, in a big way, but so would Sun and IBM.