This means that applications can communicate with other applications instead of having Web browsers connecting to servers and retrieving HTML pages. The result is that the Microsoft .NET Framework will make it easier for developers to create distributed, Internet-scale applications using their existing knowledge and tools. The Microsoft .NET Framework provides Centura with a foundation to add unprecedented openness, power and reliability to our development solution. The integrated support for XML and SOAP in the Microsoft .NET Framework couldn't come at a better time. The Microsoft .NET Framework advances the concepts Microsoft first introduced in COM by coupling the infrastructure and services necessary for a Web application environment.
Developers can more easily build and reuse components, resulting in huge productivity gains.
This announcement will help strengthen our efforts to increase the supply of componentized business expertise to our corporate customer base in more than 100 countries. The Microsoft .NET framework is a powerful and robust platform for developing Web and Internet applications. This technology will help our customers as they go about building business Internet applications. The runtime is a unifying architecture that provides the building blocks for language interoperability, security and robustness. It will have a profound impact on both Web-deployable solutions and the transformation of business processes to the Internet.