From Andrew Webb: "However, in the absence of some well-founded objections, the terrible murmur that I keep hearing, the one with apocalyptic consequences for the thinking programmers of the world, will come to be accepted as Gospel. You know, the one that says that, in .NET, Microsoft has made a pretty good implementation of a rather elegant design..."

.NET Rocks is a radio-style program that features interviews from various developer luminaries, e.g. Billy Hollis and Dan Appleman. This episode is an interview of Juval Löwy, who's way into .NET Enterprise Services, the .NET interop layer with COM+.

From Michael Weinhardt: "Some corporate developers last week said they will consider switching from Web applications back to their old, familiar rich-client applications because of unpromoted features that they're just now discovering in Microsoft Corp.'s .Net framework." Carol Sliwa

From Michael Weinhardt: "Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft plan to invest $50 million in a joint effort to sell corporate customers on the software giant's .Net Web services efforts."

From Keith Wedinger: .NET clearly bears a strong resemblance to Java. It offers many of the same features, while adding interesting additions of its own (code metadata, versioned assemblies, etc). Microsoft, however, is better positioned to create a cross-market software unification framework than Sun Microsystems ever was (or is).

From Ramon: Hundreds of useful Microsoft resources, and technical documentation about, Great Plains, eEnterprise, Solomon, ASP resources,ASP links,ASP documents, ASPX, ASP.NET, VB, VB.NET, AD, Active Directory, etc...

From Bernard Vander Beken: From the release notes of this unit testing framework: "This barring any unforeseen new critical bugs will be the last V2.0 release candidate. We will not be adding any additional features until V2.0 is released which we expect now to be sometime around 26 September, 2002."

"The beta of the .NET Framework version 1.1 SDK and Redistributable is now available, along with the add-on to build and run J# applications. We encourage you to download these and provide us with feedback. You may register for the beta program to access these downloads at http://www.betaplace.com. Use the following userID and password to gain access to the site: ID: SDKBETA Password: SIGNMEUP" [Brian Harry, DOTNET-CLR]