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Pay-to-Play: Microsoft erects .NET tollgate

[Kann mir jemand in 1 Satz erklaeren, was da eigentlich abgeht? --AHH]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17709.html

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.

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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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