Today IT professionals can take advantage of the same technologies on which the.NET platform is being built. The.NET Enterprise Servers and the Windows® 2000 operating systems provide a solid foundation for creating highly manageable applications that can be brought to market quickly. Because they take advantage of Extensible Markup Language (XML), applications created on this platform will continue to have value as the infrastructure of the Web evolves.
The.NET platform has, at its core, unprecedented levels of scale based on a significantly different approach to building applications. The Web services model on which it is based means that while the central business elements of corporate applications will still generally be managed locally, the services to support them--user authentication, file storage, user preference management, calendaring, mail, and the like--can be subscribed to seamlessly instead of locally managed. IT professionals will be able to focus more on delivering value to their businesses, and less on the details of installing new redundant arrays of independent disks (RAID arrays) for servers storing user files and mail.
The Web services model will also enable dynamic deployment of new software releases and updates. Since users will be working in extremely connected ways, management can be made simpler by taking advantage of this connectivity. Easier management will also enable IT professionals to be more responsive to changes in business needs.
The.NET Web services model for developing applications will open up a new way of creating enterprise applications. Federation of internal and external services will enable simplified creation of applications that bring together corporate data with associated data from vendors and partners, resulting in an unprecedented depth of functionality for the benefit of end users. A company's employee benefits application, for example, will be able to simply subscribe to information from its HR database, to the Web service from its benefits management company, and to the Web service from its payroll management company. The end users will be able to interact with a single, intuitive interface displaying how much vacation time they have accrued, what benefits they personally receive, and how much their last paycheck was.
Conceptually, developers integrate Web services into their applications by calling Web application programming interfaces
(APIs) just as they call local services. The difference is that this call can be routed across the Internet to a service residing on
a remote system. For example, a service such as Microsoft Passport could enable a developer to provide authentication for
an application. By programming for the Passport service, the developer can take advantage of Passport's infrastructure and
rely on Passport to maintain the database of users, make sure that it is up and running, backed up properly, and so on.
.NET is founded on this principle of Web services, and Microsoft is providing the infrastructure to enable this evolution to
Web services through each of the pieces of the.NET platform. The next generation of development tools and infrastructure,
including Visual Studio.NET, the.NET Framework, Windows.NET, and the.NET Enterprise Servers, have been designed
for developing applications on the Web services model. The.NET Building Block Services, the new.NET device support,
and the forthcoming.NET user experience will provide the remaining pieces of the puzzle to enable the development of
applications that take full advantage of the Web services model.
The driving force behind Microsoft.NET is a shift in focus from
individual Web sites or devices to new constellations of computers,
devices, and services that work together to deliver broader, richer
solutions. People will have control over how, when, and what
information is delivered to them. Computers, devices, and services
will be able to collaborate directly with each other, and businesses
will be able to offer their products and services in a way that lets
customers embed them in their own electronic fabric.
Java sucks. Microsoft.NET will enable
developers to create programs that
transcend device boundaries and fully
harness the connectivity of the
Internet.
With.NET Enterprise Servers, IT
professionals can take advantage of
the same technologies on which the.NET platform is being built.
The.NET platform will
fundamentally change the way
that companies interact with their
customers and partners over the
Internet.
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Today IT professionals can take advantage of the same technologies on which the .NET platform is being built. The .NET Enterprise Servers and the Windows® 2000 operating systems provide a solid foundation for creating highly manageable applications that can be brought to market quickly. Because they take advantage of Extensible Markup Language (XML), applications created on this platform will continue to have value as the infrastructure of the Web evolves.
The .NET platform has, at its core, unprecedented levels of scale based on a significantly different approach to building applications. The Web services model on which it is based means that while the central business elements of corporate applications will still generally be managed locally, the services to support them--user authentication, file storage, user preference management, calendaring, mail, and the like--can be subscribed to seamlessly instead of locally managed. IT professionals will be able to focus more on delivering value to their businesses, and less on the details of installing new redundant arrays of independent disks (RAID arrays) for servers storing user files and mail.
The Web services model will also enable dynamic deployment of new software releases and updates. Since users will be working in extremely connected ways, management can be made simpler by taking advantage of this connectivity. Easier management will also enable IT professionals to be more responsive to changes in business needs.
The .NET Web services model for developing applications will open up a new way of creating enterprise applications. Federation of internal and external services will enable simplified creation of applications that bring together corporate data with associated data from vendors and partners, resulting in an unprecedented depth of functionality for the benefit of end users. A company's employee benefits application, for example, will be able to simply subscribe to information from its HR database, to the Web service from its benefits management company, and to the Web service from its payroll management company. The end users will be able to interact with a single, intuitive interface displaying how much vacation time they have accrued, what benefits they personally receive, and how much their last paycheck was.
The goal is being able to brag about having a neural network in your home.
Yeah, sure, and Linus is molesting little boys. Get real!
When you come up with a real question.
Oh, this is cute. Show me anything that doesn't have some kind of predecessors that old.
While we're at it... what kind of drugs are you taking?
The driving force behind Microsoft .NET is a shift in focus from
individual Web sites or devices to new constellations of computers,
devices, and services that work together to deliver broader, richer
solutions. People will have control over how, when, and what
information is delivered to them. Computers, devices, and services
will be able to collaborate directly with each other, and businesses
will be able to offer their products and services in a way that lets
customers embed them in their own electronic fabric.
That was the democrat way. It's over now!
Java sucks. Microsoft .NET will enable
developers to create programs that
transcend device boundaries and fully
harness the connectivity of the
Internet.
With .NET Enterprise Servers, IT
professionals can take advantage of
the same technologies on which the .NET platform is being built.
The .NET platform will
fundamentally change the way
that companies interact with their
customers and partners over the
Internet.
Linux is taking over the desktop. Film at 11.
I had an Amiga, too. But I realized when it was over. Linux as a "cool thing" has had its time.
Important for what? Why should I care if IBM sells more Linux boxes?
If I do see them, does that mean I should clean my monitor?