23 Mar 2001
Microsoft has announced plans to launch software that allows .Net-based web services to run on third-party operating systems.
At an event hosted by Silicon Valley non-profit making group The Churchill Club, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told attendees: "We will make some announcements where we'll have ways for people who are not running on top of a Microsoft platform to implement our .Net services."
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Ballmer confirmed that Linux would be one of the third-party platforms supported, adding that "Microsoft would provide a way for those Linux servers to use .Net".
In the software giant's .Net vision, there are two kinds of web services: generic horizontal building block services and application specific services.
There are also services and protocols such as XML, Simple Object Access Protocol and Universal Description Discovery and Integration that make up the underlying plumbing for the horizontal and vertical types of web services.
Microsoft is also expected to announce Hailstorm, a set of XML services for tasks such as authenticating user identity.
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