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Thu, Feb 14th 2002 12:34am — Mike Masnick
I've seen lots of hype about .NET and web services and plenty of other stuff, but Salon is running an article that is so gushingly full of praise for .NET that it's almost scary. The writer does at least bring up a few of the points made by people concerned about .NET, but brushes them off just as quickly. The more I understand about web services and things like .NET, the more useful I can see them becoming. However, the excessive praise dumped on it in this article is a bit too much. I'm sorry, but the introduction of .NET is unlikely to be remembered along with the works of Gutenberg and Babbage. I guess it's not really a surprise to find out that the author is working on not one, but two books about .NET. Might as well get the hype rolling early so he'll get more sales.
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    Fred Tourette, 14 Feb 2002 @ 11:15am

    .Net, The Next Coming

    'Twas indeed a bit jarring to see such high praise for anything MS in Salon, although I suppose it goes in some way to "unbiased reporting" credibility. We still have The Register for one-stop MS-bashing. I did get some relief to see at the end that at least it wasn't one of Rosenberg's. But still....

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    Anonymous Coward, 14 Feb 2002 @ 12:26pm

    It's not even new!

    From what I can tell, .Net is not all that far removed from CORBA (ddistributed issimilar code working interoperably) or a Java/Application Server (ACL, Beans containers, VM, etc.)combination. They have fancy new monikers for the pieces/parts, but the concepts have been around for a few years.

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