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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedWhat is .NET anyway? .NET and XML Web services are key terms in Microsoft lexicon. (Frontstep[TM]).
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Microsoft .NET makes open integration possible. Yet even Microsoft admits confusion lingers as to what .NET is, and what it means for business process owners, as opposed to developers. According to Don Richardson, managing director for manufacturing with Microsoft, .NET "is a platform for developing and deploying XML Web services." An XML Web service is an application program, or a piece of logic, that contains a special messaging layer that allows it to communicate across a network with any other application that contains a similar messaging layer, allowing computers to share data or functions.
Microsoft typically uses the term XML Web services, because the messaging layers used on the .NET platform are comprised of XML code. If you've ever used a...
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