Re: [DotGNU]What .NET is this?

[Bill Lance]

--- Rhys Weatherley <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bill Lance wrote:
> 
> > This is most curious.  What part of .NET are they
> > talking about?
> >
> >
>
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2817390,00.html
> 
> It looks like Verizon threw together a Visual Basic
> app to solve their immediate circuit tracking
> problems.
> Then they compiled it to run on the .NET runtime and
> what-not.  It was probably just a case of VB lying
> around when they needed the problem solved and so
> that's what they used.
> 

So what advantage is gained by the .NET runtime?  Are
you assuming that the app used (and presumably needed)
RPC's to various Verizon data sites in orders to
acomplish it's task?


> The real test of .NET will be end-user apps on the
> ground, not quick-fire solutions to one-off vertical
> problems.  Anything can be used for one-offs. 
> That's
> always been the case.
> 


I'm not sure about that.  The whole concept of
middleware has always struck me as being far more
relevant to internal system development where it's a
variant of the ol' problem of making your network
work. 

There's all kinds of interesting new tricks in this
space.  Some time in the near future, even b2b uses
may evolve.  However, I am having terrible trouble
envisoning a significant use of this for the internet
enduser.  MS's Passport/Hailstorm is certainly one
idea of such a thing.  But it's 'value proposition' is
far more to Microsoft's interest than the endusers
interest.


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