.NET Servers and the Future of .NET
The designers of the .NET Framework put much thought into how distributed computing should work. It seems that .NET is the next killer app, but to make the .NET Framework a widespread success, actual servers must be built using the .NET Framework. Currently, there are no true .NET servers. There are servers that take advantage of the common language runtime and its managed execution environment, but most servers from Microsoft today still run under COM and unmanaged code.
Commerce Server 2002 is positioned as a .NET server for e-commerce, and applications you design with it can be completely written using Visual Basic .NET or C#, but the underlying infrastructure of Commerce Server is still based on COM. Because ...
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