SAP's NetWeaver and Microsoft's .NET have deepened their integration by releasing a Portal Development Kit for .NET within SAP's NetWeaver platform. This helps SAP customers build content for the SAP Enterprise Portal (a NetWeaver component) using e.g. Visual C# or Visual Basic .NET.
While SAP remains committed to Java and J2EE as well, it shows that SAP wants to be the Switzerland of enterprise applications, by continuously improving interoperability with J2EE and .NET. Of course, SAP also wins because of the growing community of .NET developers that can now take advantage of the features and functionality of NetWeaver Enterprise Portal...
The PDK can be downloaded from the SAP Developer Network.