Microsoft TechNet editor Steven Levy has completed his three-parter on what .Net is and what it means, which he started here in January. Of course this is not an independent view -- ultimately it is a sales pitch -- but it isn't an official Microsoft strategy white paper either. And if you can be bothered to read it, you will understand .Net better than 90% of British IT staff and 99.9% of journalists.
Real techies can follow this up with the story of Dollar Rent A Car's .Net implementation, which dismisses Corba, Java and Oracle and shows how true happiness can be achieved simply by buying everything from Microsoft. This is a dramatic change from a couple of years ago when true happiness could only be achieved simply by buying everything from Sun or, before that, buying everything from IBM.
