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The availability of final gold code for Visual Studio.NET on MSDN offers the green light for third party component authors to deliver final .NET products, marking the start of a new component market. With organizations cutting down their IT spend this year, the availability of pre-built reusable components takes on a new significance. Development effort displaced by reusable components available for the NET environment could run into savings of millions of dollars. The availability of Visual Studio.NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework is also set to change the market for components based on Microsoft technology, dramatically promoting a strong shift from client to server and offering competition to J2EE 1.3. Already the third party momentum in the software component market for Microsoft .NET is far exceeding the Java market for pre-built reusable components. Third party vendors are embracing the new revenue opportunities offered by the Microsoft NET Framework and in many instances are offering brand new Produ ct lines that they were not able to deliver using the Microsoft COM Environment. The NET Framework also lays the future foundations for a burgeoning third party market for Web services with many component authors looking to potentially paid Web services in the future.

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