[DotGNU]Re: What is .Net?

[Bill Lance]

Thanks for you points to my earlier question.

While looking through the material I can find about
.NET, I get three sets of impressions of what it is
about.

One is that it's about distributed computing and
network services. Applications can be assembled from
standardized components, running on different hosts,
at one level of the vision.  Or at the other extream,
low-level functions, such as curreny conversions,
provided by a http address procedure call.

A second set is about .NET as a infrastructure for ASP
services. This thread assumed that all that
'distributed' computing enabled in the first set,
becomes asymetric.  Large numbers of users will will
prefer to rely on a central, subscription service,
rather than on each other, or on services controlled
by the user themselves, on their own friggen networks.

The third set of impressions are about a develper
environment/tools, centered on C# and CLI and VB-NET,
etc.  They seem to have something to do with
implementing the first two set, but most of the
discussion is about it vrs JAVA.

Which of these is this group focused on?



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