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ETC to use Dot Net Strategy
Las Vegas, NV
Express Technologies Corporation aims towards fully utilizing the Web to
its capability. With the advanced technological availability and
resources within Express Technologies, ETC sees a great step towards faster & more accurate
transaction & program creation.
Similar to Microsoft Corporation, we feel that the integration of
the Dot Net Strategy provides us with a lead on work flow across the
globe.
ETC sees great companies gaining through Dot Net strategy, similar to
the examples taken from a recent Patrick Seitz article in Investor's
Business Daily:
Dollar Rent A Car could be the poster child for Microsoft Corp.'s
ambitious .Net initiative.
The Tulsa, Okla-based car rental firm is an early adopter of the Web
technologies Microsoft is touting. Microsoft is set to announce
Monday new technology for its Web services strategy, pronounced
"Don Net."
Microsoft has high hopes for .Net. Company Chairman and chief
software architect Bill Gates has called it a "bet-the-company kind
of thing."
"I love where they're going" said Peter Osbourne, Dollar's
group manager for advanced technology and decision support
services. "I'm hoping they can get there faster."
Dollar recently used Web software tools from Microsoft to integrate its
online car rental system with Southwest Airlines Co.'s Web site.
The process took only two weeks and cost a fraction of what another
method would have, Osbourne says.
The success of Dollar and other guinea pigs using early .Net
technologies bodes well for Microsoft. The Redmond, Wash.,
software giant is trying to revamp its entire business line with
Internet technologies that can seamlessly tie its products to systems
from other companies and to Web services. Microsoft's rivals here
include Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp.
Early adopter stories show that Microsoft is a a leader in the networked
software and services game, says Barry Goffe, group manager of
Microsoft's .Net developer and enterprise communications.
"Dot Net starts today. It's about integration and Web
services," Goffe said. "It chaps my hide to hear Larry
Ellison or Scott McNealy call it 'Not Yet' and say it's three to four
years out." The chief executives of Oracle Corp. and Sun,
respectively, are frequent Microsoft critics.
Microsoft's .Net products are meant to improve efficiency and solve
problems for corporations, Goffe says The company wants its
software to tie disparate computer systems together fusing the
Internet. that includes linking internal systems and those of
customers and suppliers, Goffe says.
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