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Sixty-five percent of large companies use Microsoft .NET.


FastNET ASP says that Microsoft .NET See .NET.  is the preferred development platform for sixty-five percent of UK larger corporates surveyed. Results also reveal that there is a growing trend towards developing browser-based applications.

In a survey one hundred UK commercial organisations with a workforce greater than 1000 employees, were interviewed from cross-industry sectors including financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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, manufacturing and retail.

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Two-thirds of respondents said that they currently develop on the Microsoft .NET platform, with almost half of those surveyed (42%) developing web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you.  based applications. With new technologies such as distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing.

(2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system.
 and wireless connectivity gaining ground, this demonstrates that businesses across multiple industries are recognising that the desktop is not the best place from which to run applications. Web-browser based applications are much easier to distribute and deploy as there is only one working copy of the application that remains on the server. Increasing regulatory compliance and flexible working are propelling pro·pel  
tr.v. pro·pelled, pro·pel·ling, pro·pels
To cause to move forward or onward. See Synonyms at push.



[Middle English propellen, from Latin
 businesses to use Internet applications that can be easily shared with external parties and are platform independent.

In fact, only one third of recipients develop client-based systems with Windows Forms Windows Forms is the name given to the graphical user interface application programming interface (API) included as a part of Microsoft's .NET Framework, providing access to the native Microsoft Windows interface elements by wrapping the existing Windows API in managed code.  and these are mainly used by large corporates of more than 3000 employees, within financial services and manufacturing. Financial services companies are the early adopters with one hundred percent of organisations using NET, while a larger majority within manufacturing still don't decelop with .Net.

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Title Annotation:surveys
Publication:Database and Network Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:4EUUK
Date:Jun 1, 2005
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