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To: rudedog who wrote (63768)	12/16/2001 1:37:04 PM
From: Joseph Pareti	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Microsoft Scores $30m .NET Customer Deal "At the center of our R&D efforts is M$FT .NET, an innovative effort as significant in the development of computing as the graphical user interface and the introduction of the Internet. .NET is Microsoft's patform for a new computing model built around XML Web Services. Just as the Web revolutionized how users interact with content, XML is revolutionizing how applications communicate with data and how computers and devices communicate - by providing a universal data format that lets information be easily shared, adapted or transformed." - Bill Gates Chairman and Chief Software Architect ================================================= Source: Computergram International Date: December 17, 2001 Number: 4317 Microsoft Corp has scored a $30m software and services coup at Bank One Corp, one of America's largest bank holding companies, in a three-year deal that utilizes early .NET technologies in a range of online financial services. Bank One will build services that could deliver account, billing or investment data over a variety of devices, company executives said. The company will use Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft's .NET Alerts, MSN online advertising, and promote a range of services. The deal makes Bank One the first major end-user to publicly commit to .NET. Customers who initially endorsed .NET My Services, which covers .NET Alerts, have since been exceptionally coy about revealing details of potential offerings. Criticism, meanwhile, has emerged that the .NET My Services so-far unveiled by Microsoft lack the "killer application" required to really sell the concept of web services to developers and customers. Don Box, founder of training specialist Developmentor Inc, believes Microsoft still has a lot of work to do to develop a truly compelling web service. "I'm not convinced .NET My Services are the killer app. [Microsoft has] some good ideas, but the idea to get developers really electrified is still out there. That could be a year away or next week away," he told ComputerWire. Bank One chief executive Jamie Dimon conceded that the deal is "a little blue sky" but said it is "a down payment" on a strategy to deliver web-based financial tools to 60 million individual, business and investment customers. Microsoft said .NET alerts will notify customers of relevant financial information, such as account activity information and bill payment reminders, based on their control and consent. Inevitably, subscribers to the service will have to use have to use Passport to sign in to .NET alerts. Bank One will use online advertising from MSN Advantage Marketing to push its financial products and services through integration into MSN Money and other MSN properties. The company will also promote Microsoft's Great Plains and bCentral software and services to small businesses, and the MSN online service to customers.

To: rudedog who wrote (63768)	12/19/2001 5:42:00 PM
From: Thomas C. Kimmel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

>> There is no Solaris in MSFT corporate IT and never was. ... I imagine those systems have been replaced with MSFT stack for a while. I'm pretty certain we'd have heard about it if they could run their business on one of their own OSs. I heard Solaris from a non-authoritative source. Now I have "not Solaris" from the same. My original request was for firm info, not imaginings. I'm quite interested, no matter what it is that they run, ran or will run.