Microsoft partners extend .Net reach
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Eager to embed its .Net environment in enterprise application deployments, Microsoft is working to give companies the ability to transform and manage internal Windows-based apps as .Net-enabled Web services. In a move to leverage third-party Web services development efforts, Microsoft will this week announce a three-year alliance with emerging application developer Softricity. Microsoft's aim is to leverage Softricity's SoftGrid platform and ServerGuard component to encapsulate and to priority-redirect small portions of application code without rewriting that code. The result is designed to improve the speed and management of applications running in the .Net environment, said Dewey Forester, business development manager for the platform strategy group at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash.