Here. "Apache, the world's most widely deployed Web server, now supports the Microsoft ASP.NET Web services development platform through the Covalent Enterprise Ready Server. This gives enterprise customers who wish to use ASP.NET the freedom to deploy Apache, thus enabling development and operations groups to independently utilize technologies that meet their needs. Covalent has written a white paper describing the technology in more detail."
The Covalent guys have added ASP.NET support to the open source Apache using a lot of elbow grease to map between the differences between the two processing models and the ASP.NET hosting stuff, which Microsoft arguably implemented for just this purpose. If we could get ASP.NET as part of Rotor and Rotor on Linux, you could run ASP.NET-based web servers for free (except for the money you’d pay Covalent for their bits, of course, but since they hired me to help advise them on the implementation of those bits, that works for me : ).
Here. 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..."
Here. .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+.
Here. 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."
Here. 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).
"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]
