.NET (pronounced “dot net” and sometimes written as .Net) is an open source development platform consisting of a software development framework and an accompanying ecosystem of tools ...

The result of using a platform (Microsoft .NET or Java for example ... So there is evidently a difference between a (software) product and a platform – and there is evidently a new definition ...

With Sun Microsystems Inc.s Java and Microsoft Corp.s .Net shaping up as the dominant platforms for Web services, a group of companies is trying to carve out a niche between the rival vendors.

For many corporations, today’s heterogeneous software environments require interoperability between ... on the Java side, but until recently, writing a custom object broker for .Net was ...