About .Net

.NET is a part of the Windows OS. It is also a framework for developing and running fast, secure applications, especially Web applications. More information is available from Microsoft.

• Superior development platform:
  • Supports object-oriented design idioms and good practices.
  • Lowers development costs and accelerates time-to-market.
  • Managed execution environment eliminates resources leaks and allows for run-time optimization.
  • Case studies available here.
• Microsoft's next generation framework:
  • Required in future versions of Windows.
  • Allows interoperability with deprecated technologies such as COM and MTS, as well as Microsoft products such as Outlook, Excel, and Word.
  • Offers significant security advantages over executable binaries.
  • Offers rich support for XML.
  • Native platform-independent support for Web services via SOAP.
• Cross-platform compatibility:
  • Celatro successfully executes on .NET ports such as Mono (see www.go-mono.com) and will run under Windows, Unix, Linux, and Mac OSX.