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Three little words: with a simple phrase, Microsoft answers the much disputed question, "What is .NET anyway?" (News at the front).

Publication: MSI
Publication Date: 01-OCT-02
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Even while consumers and the commercial press profess confusion as to what Microsoft means when it says ".NET," the Redmond, Wash.-based behemoth asserts the technology already is finding a home in manufacturing and supply chain. There, the need for application interoperability and integrated business processes is most obvious, and most pressing.

A recent Microsoft press and analyst event--meant at least in part to clear up lingering .NET definition questions--seemed only to sow more confusion than ever, evoking basic questions in subsequent press coverage like, what is .NET really, and what does it include? Is it simply a set of standards? Does it mean software will be rented instead of owned? Does it include the range of server products the company has been...

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