This article at LinuxWorld.com seeks to answer the question, “Does an organization have anything to gain from .NET?”. As one might guess from the website's name, the author is not particularly inclined to simply accept .NET as the next great technology just because it's Microsoft's latest highly-hyped offspring. Nonetheless, the author takes a relatively objective look at the whole idea of .NET services, including whether and where they might be useful. Topics covered include defining .NET and a host of acronyms associated with its services, considering the risks of starting down the .NET path, questioning the viability of .NET services as a business model, and a look at the Linux approach to .NET compatibility via the open source Mono project.

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