To show that not all Web services deployments are
back-office integration efforts, Microsoft is touting a .NET application bringing together FAA and related information to provide business travelers with real-time flight data.
Maintaining that ''the lack of adequate monitoring and management tools has
delayed the promise of Web services,'' Confluent Software Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., has announced plans to release ''Interceptor'' technology for Microsoft .NET.
Three software companies -- OpenLink Software, Winfessor and Tipic -- recently weighed in with their support for Mono, an open-source implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
There are understandable reasons why IT
departments are delaying the adoption of .NET. However, the rate of .NET adoption will pick up.
Cleveland-based PreEmptive Solutions Inc., along with Microsoft, has announced the integration of PreEmptive's Dotfuscator Community Edition into the next version of Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET.
At the recent OOPSLA 2002 conference in Seattle, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates discussed the upcoming road map for Visual C#, .NET and Visual C++.
There is a growing trend toward widespread adoption of the Microsoft Web services development environment by Visual Basic 6 developers.
Realists dismiss noise surrounding J2EE and .NET to concentrate on more important hurdles on the road to a true distributed component model -- like licensing, reuse, testing and Web services.
Given the lawsuits and general bad blood between Microsoft and Sun, most people are not banking on anything breaking on the .NET and Java integration front anytime soon.
Groove Networks has recently sought to supplement its own toolset with hooks to the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET environment.
The latest version of Borland's popular Delphi Studio toolset is poised to play a major role in the next phase of Microsoft Windows-oriented application development.
Optimization rules have changed under VB.NET -- here's half a dozen new ways to build wicked-fast code.
Developers can now use Microsoft .NET to build applications linking to the popular Apache Web server, according to San Francisco-based Covalent Technologies Inc., which markets Apache 2.0 as part of its Enterprise Ready Server.
It is probably
easier for Red Sox and Yankee fans to find common ground than it is for adherents to Java or .NET.
Optimization rules have changed under VB.NET-here are eight great new ways to build wicked-fast code.
Needing a new application to track wild elk herds in the Rockies, the Colorado Department of Agriculture turned to a Web services architecture.
Users say the transition to .NET is mostly smooth so far, but Java appears safe for now.
Lost in the hoopla of the .NET lovefest in Redmond last week was the unveiling a technology that Microsoft officials promise can provide IT developers the ability to more easily integrate applications built on the .NET framework with Oracle databases.
Microsoft’s .NET technology is at least six months ahead of its
rivals. It’s more complete, more ready and more widely deployed
than any of its Web services framework competitors.
Rumors of DISCO's death have been greatly exaggerated -- it's simply hibernating. Roger Jennings shows you how to wake the DISCO service and prepare for eventual migration to its replacement: WS-Inspection.