Epiphany helps Microsoft shine .NET light
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Microsoft enlisted Epiphany to showcase how the software giant's .Net tools can help develop viable Web services. Epiphany, which makes customer relationship management (CRM) software, said it would provide a Web services version of its products using Microsoft MapPoint .Net, one of Microsoft's .Net tools. Microsoft is planning its own CRM software through its Great Plains division. But as a provider of infrastructure software, such as operating systems and database management software, the software giant is also keen to gain business for its .Net generation of products.
"Although MapPoint is a .Net-based Web Service, and Epiphany E.6 is based on J2EE, today's open Web Services standards allow for seamless interoperation between these important technologies," Phil Fernandez, Epiphany executive vice president, said in a statement. "