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What the Heck Is .NET?

Posted February 21, 2001 | Leadership | Leadership |

At least once a year, I find myself being bombarded by a new IT buzzword that makes no sense to me -- or one that seems far less exciting and revolutionary than the media hype would have us believe. The buzzword I'm struggling with at the moment is Microsoft's ".NET" initiative.

About The Author
Ed Yourdon
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More
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