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[FYI] Pay-to-Play: Microsoft erects .NET tollgate
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- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:48:31 +0100
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17709.html
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Pay-to-Play: Microsoft erects .NET tollgate
By: Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 19/03/2001 at 19:15 GMT
Some of Microsoft's .NET vaporware precipitated today, in the form of
a HailStorm. HailStorm is the first piece of .NET to be pushed into
public view, and at last we can see how some of the loose ends around
.NET and Microsoft's Great Plains purchase are beginning to come
together. The services are slated to go live in beta form late this
year, with operational roll-out in 2002.
But almost unnoticed in the rush to discuss the usage (or abusage) of
SOAP, XML and other technology specs is the more significant story.
Microsoft promises to make Hailstorm a "business center", piped
through the Passport hub. In other words, it's pay-to-play.
[...]
Well now the wheel's turned full circle. Take this, for example:-
"Service operators will also have a certificate-based license
relationship with Microsoft allowing them to use HailStorm services,
which will make it possible to ensure that no service using HailStorm
is abusive of the resources involved, affecting other users of the
services. That certificate will make it possible to filter abusers of
the system."
In another era, Microsoft might have been expected to sell these as
'building blocks' for a new tier of service provider companies and
certification authorities. But not any more. Trading in its image of
bug-eyed strangler for the new one of benevolent guardian of the
oxygen tent is going to be quite a challenge, and this is how
Microsoft will attempt it:-
[...]
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