Microsoft .NET Impact
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According to IDC analyst Albert Pang, .NET will serve as a glue that links a company's IT infrastructure with its customers, enabling Internet companies to build e-tail sites more rapidly. "That, in turn, is likely to influence and produce greater numbers of commercial transactions on the Internet," Pang told the E-Commerce Times.
Down the road, .NET adoption will increase the convenience of Web transactions as Internet companies use this technology to share information. "There will be greater ... convenience for shoppers if some of these back-end systems are linked so that data can be extracted and exchanged more easily," Pang said. "For example, you probably don't need to type in your credit card number every time when you visit sites that are built using .NET architecture and components."
In addition to making the shopping process easier for Web buyers, .NET will likely make Web site development more affordable for e-commerce companies. "It might make the task of building an e-commerce site cheaper, but in most cases that has been the smallest part of e-commerce investment anyway," Bartels said.