.NET (was Re: [CLUE-Talk] Walmart selling mandrake systems)

[Randy Arabie]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Matt Gushee wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:01:25PM -0400, Grant Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > .Net:  Web services using SOAP (RPC over HTTP in XML format).  In order 
> 
>   [snip]
> 
> > So far in the real world:  Lotsa hype, lotsa people who love MS saying 
> > how great it is, no one really using it for anything real....
> 
> That's what I thought too. But I was talking the other day to a guy who
> says otherwise; FWIW, he's an old mainframer with no particular love for
> MS, currently in a Comp Sci graduate program. He couldn't give any
> specific examples on the spot, though ... and grad students sometimes
> have odd ideas about what constitutes the real world.

Yeah.  I'm currently working on a project for the State of Colorado, and 
a .NET architecture is being considered.  The project involves the 
conglomeration of bits of data from different state agencies into one 
database for use in a GIS application. 

The State of Colorado is 'big' on M$ products, so I'm not suprised .NET is 
being considered.  The RFP for this project stipulated that M$ SQL Server, 
VB, et al would be used.

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Cheerio!

Randy