We've spent a lot of time talking about what .NET is, and what some of the various .NET technologies can do, but we haven't yet shown you what it really takes to develop a .NET application. In this episode of the .NET Show, we meet with Jason Roos and Ean Hernadez. They are both developers from Saltmine, and they've brought with them a simplified example of what it takes to both write a Web service, as well as use it within a Web application. Microsoft SVP Craig Mundie is dead right when he said in his Commercial Software Model speech at NYU that the next generation of Internet applications can only come about through development efforts from a wide-ranging group of companies and developers. Microsoft may be changing its licensing practices, potentially compelling large companies to pay up every three years to continue using a piece of software.
Many employers now monitor their employees' telephone conversations.
The police plant video cameras on street corners, and direct marketers keep close tabs on where we go on the Web. But each of these activities accounts for only a slice of our existence. Oatfield aims to capture the whole pie. And it is continually fine-tuning its surveillance.