.NET Benefits

These two features of .NET, web services and assembly version provide it with a great deal of power to offer many useful services and benefits to both developers and businesses.

• New business models become possible
  • "Software as a service" - strides taken against DLL Hell make their major contribution here
  • Integrating useful functionality derived from other businesses that specialize in it
    • Example: a telecommunications company provides voice-mail/caller ID data as a web service. This is then used by the telecom's own Instant Messenger software...and then your e-mail client's company decides to use it as well, and other application developers have it available as well
  • IT services may tap into vendor web services to tap their expertise or to outsource various services - thus reducing costs and at the same time extending their own capabilites for their customers
• User-friendly and personalized Internet
  • Intelligent devices remember your user preferences and can deliver your data to any device you are using
  • Computers become easier to use and more functional, by eliminating artificial constraints imposed by hardware
  • User data lives on the Internet, and may be accessed from any desktop, laptop, or PDA, and integrated across multiple applications (another XML benefit)

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