Users hold back on plans for .Net
Getting a firm grasp on the .Net initiative Microsoft Corp. launched more than 10 months ago might be compared to catching a fish with bare hands. Even one of Microsoft's top executives, Jim Allchin, publicly acknowledged last week, "I know it's been confusing."
The result? Many IT professionals at last week's Gartner Inc. conference, Windows 2000 and Beyond, said they haven't been seriously thinking about or making plans for the .Net world that Microsoft has been promoting. Allchin spoke at the conference about his company's new Web service-focused development platform strategy.
"From a business perspective, I need justification, ROI, before I buy something different," said Joe Drozynski, an IT project manager at Capital Blue Cross in Harrisburg, Pa. ".Net is a vision, and I don't see it as something I can take to my CIO."
Calling .Net "total vaporware," a Windows NT project leader and manager at a Midwestern publishing firm said, "I know it's how they plan to bring everything together. It just sounds too huge to ever work."
"I think I'm as confused as everybody else is right now. [.Net] seems to be a moving target," said Dennis Lionberger, chief of architecture for Marin County, Calif. "Right now, it's not well defined enough to mean much to me. I'm not sure Microsoft is sure what it will be. My first take is to wait for them to figure it out."
At the Gartner show, Allchin tried to clarify the .Net message by boiling it down to the following five points:
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