.Net Grade: Incomplete
eWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft still has a long way to go to meet its .Net aspirations, but the company has vision for the strategy nevertheless. John Rymer, an analyst at Giga Information Group Inc., in Cambridge, Mass., said Microsoft still has many issues to confront.
Still, some analysts and customers agreed that Microsoft is on the right track. Giga's Rymer is impressed that Microsoft is using Web services technology in every aspect of its business. "What I also saw was very Microsoft," he said. "A lot of applications they showed us were not about building transactional systems or big distributed environments. It was all about simplification. They used XML to make the environment very, very simple." DeBona said Microsoft's moves to date are positive developments that will improve acceptance of .Net in environments where only Java is currently allowed. "If these plans work as promised, it should be a very bright future for .Net," he said.