At Microsoft's Tech-Ed developer conference in New Orleans, Microsoft Senior Vice President Eric Rudder said the company's .Net Web services software strategy is starting to take hold. But he also said the software industry needs to do more work on Web services security, reliability and compatibility.
Rudder said Microsoft has shipped more than one million copies of Visual Studio.Net, Microsoft's new suite of software tools for building Web services that was released in February. He said the company has also attracted more than 200 software companies to build tools and software components for .Net.
Rudder appealed to developers to choose Microsoft as their Web services technology provider. Microsoft competes against IBM, Sun Microsystems, Oracle and others in selling the tools and software to build and run Web services.
