The power of Application Center 2000 is just one of the reasons that Lycos recently adopted the .NET Platform for its high-volume Web sites. It should enable us to focus more of our efforts on bringing new Lycos properties online faster and optimizing the performance of our current sites to an even greater level. The .NET Enterprise Server family was created to enable companies to embrace Web technologies while preserving systems and technologies already in place. A solution that utilized BizTalk Server 2000 and Commerce Server 2000 provided the answer. For companies like RadioShack, second generation Web sites are a starting point, not an end in themselves.
Offense is all about enabling new business processes.
Defense is all about managing costs. With .NET Enterprise Servers, companies can move quickly, they can adapt to changes in the marketplace, they can change their business model, they can implement new business processes on the fly. And they can do all this in a cost-effective and affordable manner. I think that puts companies in a great position. And by offering all of the tools and services necessary to do that, puts Microsoft and our partners in a great position as well.