Research 2.0, in its May technology research report, found that Microsoft has made “significant advances” with .Net and Windows Vista-driven technology improvements..Net, Research 2.0 said, has advantages compared to platforms such as the open source LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack.“Perhaps the most striking value of .Net is the efficiency it affords over other platforms. It’s the ability to get to the job at hand vs. building scaffolding to get started,” the report stated. Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, for running multimedia applications in a browser, will fuel market gains versus Adobe Flash and AJAX, Research 2.0 said. The report also covers the latest SOA findings. Research 2.0 predicts users will keep experimenting with SOA during the next few years but that will peak in 2010 or 2011. SOA will be embraced as mainstream technology by 2015. SOA packaged applications are predicted to dominate application market revenue flows within a decade, disrupting application providers Oracle, SAP and Salesforce.com.The services industry is leading SOA adoption progress; portal- and infrastructure-based approaches to SOA developments are being explored. The Research 2.0 report, which was funded by the Research 2.0 itself, can be downloaded here. The company issues the report to entice investors and businesses to buy the company’s other reports, a representative for Research 2.0 said. Software Development