[PatrioticAmerican]

.NET case studies. Why can't you read and do your own research? Hell, this came from Microsoft's site, for you to find, instead of bashing .NET and saying that "no one" is using it.

Accenture Accenture software architect and consultant Dennis Wagner worked closely with a team from Avanade to build materials that will help clients develop scalable, reliable applications for the Microsoft .NET Framework.

ACCOR Services With the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET development tools, ACCOR Services is building an integrated, homogeneous platform for its back-office applications and XML Web services.

American Electric Power Developers at American Electric Power are using Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework to share code and knowledge, and collaborate across distances as virtual teams.

Arthur Andersen Most people would say that it's crazy to build a mission-critical application on a beta platform, but Arthur Andersen's e-business consultants successfully built a new application for reviewing and monitoring medical research using Microsoft .NET.

Autodesk When Autodesk wanted to prototype building a new client-server analysis and visualization application for all of its drawing file formats, it turned to Microsoft .NET.

Babcock & Jenkins Babcock & Jenkins only recently began developing its next-generation applications with the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET, and it is already realizing impressive gains in developer productivity.

Banco Itaú Banco Itaú developed and deployed a Web-based online payment solution for its customers using the Microsoft .NET platform and other Microsoft technologies.

Bank of Nova Scotia When Scotiabank's Dealer Finance Centre network's existing mainframe system failed to produce timely monthly reports, they resolved to build two new applications with Microsoft .NET.

Best Software For Best Software, keeping up with the times means, in part, keeping up with Microsoft operating systems; so as Microsoft moves to the .NET architecture, Best Software is following suit.

BindView Utilizing the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET, BindView is creating security solutions that enable customers to manage security policies and run security checks through a single, Web-based interface.

Brierley & Partners Brierley & Partners used Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework to build an integrated, Web-based customer relationship management (CRM) solution.

Buy.com In just two weeks, two Buy.com developers using Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework created a personalized shopping portal that provides customers with faster access to products of interest, account information, and order status.

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young When Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGE&Y) decided to get their feet wet with Microsoft .NET, the company chose to implement a generic framework that its consultants could reuse on other projects.

Carnival Cruise Lines When Carnival Cruise Lines needed quick turnaround on creating a Web-based application for processing customer information requests about the company's ships and cruises, it turned to Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows®.

Clarus Corporation Using Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework, Clarus Corporation has created ClarusNet, a collection of services that gives Clarus developers easy access to the tools they need to produce valuable business-to-business (B2B) solutions.

Click Commerce Learn why Click Commerce rewrote its core application with Microsoft ASP.NET and C#.

Compaq Using the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET, Compaq quickly built a powerful XML Web service that is now providing B2B and business-to-consumer (B2C) access to its Enterprise Resource Planning system.

Comprehensive Software Systems (CSS) Faced with an ever increasing demand for wireless services, CSS created ECMExpress using Visual Studio .NET and Microsoft ASP.NET with the Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit.

Continental Airlines By developing a mobile travel-planning application with the.NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET, Continental Airlines is significantly reducing deployment time, eliminating overhead, and providing transparent interoperability with host systems.

Corillian To produce its financial transaction technology for consumers, Corillian has made a commitment to the .NET platform, adopting the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET.

Credit Suisse First Boston Based on the .NET Framework, CSFB's Zero Impact Application Deployment (ZIAD) initiative is designed to reduce the cost of deploying and supporting desktop applications.

CyberWatcher Seeking more powerful integration and communications capabilities, CyberWatcher is implementing a new release of its Web-based data mining software using the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET.

Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank's Global Equity Derivatives unit gave its developers access to XML Web services and ASP.NET custom controls with Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework.

divine, Inc. Using Microsoft .NET technology, divine developed an Operational Support System featuring more than 800,000 lines of code written in Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET, and used Microsoft BizTalk® Server for integration to other enterprise application platforms.

Dollar Rent A Car Dollar Rent A Car generated millions of dollars in additional revenue by using Microsoft .NET to create an XML Web service interface to expose its existing mainframe-based reservation system.

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein Developers at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW) have found that the .NET Framework, Visual Studio .NET, and C# deliver a Rapid Application Development (RAD) platform that can be developed quickly and meets users' needs.

Eclipsys Corporation Eclipsys Corporation is using Microsoft .NET to meet its goal—to make the SunriseXA architecture the "Microsoft Office of Healthcare."

EdgeRender Inc. The Microsoft .NET platform has allowed EdgeRender to achieve its goal of quickly and affordably producing the richest products and services possible.

EDS EDS was developing its E-vis applications on UNIX, but has now adopted the Microsoft .NET Framework, and is developing its next-generation solution with Visual Studio .NET.

Emirates Group When the Emirates Group decided in April to join with MSN® Arabia to build the MSN Arabia Travel Channel, they decided to build the site using Microsoft .NET, with additional technology from Galileo.

ESRI Using Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework, ESRI is providing its clients with the means to easily incorporate geographic information system (GIS) technology into their applications.

FrontRange Solutions, Inc. FrontRange Solutions, Inc., chose Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework as the integrated development environment to unite its more than 60 developers who came together from the merger of three companies. See other FrontRange Solutions case studies.

Global Trade Technologies, Inc. Learn how Global Trade Technologies, Inc. built a subscription B2B e-commerce bond-trading Web site for retail broker/dealers using Microsoft .NET technology.

Harris Interactive Harris Interactive is creating an online registration system with the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET, reducing development time, increasing database searching speed, and providing flexible business logic.

Home Shopping Network (HSN) In just three weeks, HSN ported the search functionality on its premier Internet shopping site to the .NET Framework, using Visual Studio .NET, Web Forms, ASP.NET, and Microsoft ADO.NET. See other HSN case studies.

Impact Technologies Impact Technologies develops software for financial needs analysis, business planning and estate planning. Find out why they chose to deploy seven Web applications with Microsoft .NET.

JetBlue Airways Using Visual Studio .NET, JetBlue developers built a high-performance application supporting a Web-based company store in record time.

KVault Software The decision to build a Microsoft .NET-based service allowed KVault Software to expand its market by making its flagship product available to small and medium-sized businesses as quickly as possible.

L'Oréal Using Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework, L'Oréal realized a single Web-based platform that can be leveraged across the company's diverse set of brands, geographies, and business needs.

Mary Kay Inc. Discover why Mary Kay is using Microsoft .NET to implement a centralized ordering system for its 850,000 consultants.

Merrill Lynch For Merrill Lynch, a three-tier architecture based on Microsoft ASP.NET, VoiceXML, and XML Web services turned out to meet all the criteria for a successful voice-response system.

Microsoft Sales and Support IT Team (SSIT) In eight weeks, the SSIT Team laid the foundation for a customer relationship management (CRM) infrastructure that pulls together data from multiple sources to provide a holistic view of the customer across all points of contact.

The National Cancer Institute The main National Cancer Institute Web site, cancer.gov, has been redesigned, re-implemented, and dramatically improved using Microsoft .NET, C#, and ASP.NET.

Navision a/s With Microsoft .NET, Navision is building an integrated business solution that can easily be adapted to the needs of a local and/or vertical market.

NDCHealth Using Visual Studio .NET and the.NET Framework, NDCHealth is developing a solution that will streamline the time required for customers to obtain estimates for new project requests, and provide a two-fold increase in Web developer productivity.

Newport News Shipbuilding Naptheon, Inc., a subsidiary of Newport News Shipbuilding, used the.NET platform, to improve its speed-to-market by 19 percent in building and launching its new application, ShipRepair.NET.

OneSource OneSource has taken advantage of Microsoft .NET technology to begin delivering and deploying access to their content and functionality via XML Web services and SOAP.

Pacific Life By using Microsoft .NET to develop XML Web services, Pacific Life's Life Insurance Division found a better way to exchange data and processes with their business associates.

Pitney Bowes Pitney Bowes has used its shipping expertise to create an XML Web service that does accurate package pricing and rate shopping.

ProTier For ProTier, the adoption of Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework created a more efficient and manageable development process, allowing ProTier to turn ideas into products faster.

Rainier Technology, Inc. Rainier recently built a feature-rich, Microsoft .NET-based Web application to assist businesses seeking to produce retirement plans for employees.

Sapient Corporation With the help of the Microsoft .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET development environment, Sapient Corporation built a medical/health-information and management solution for corporations with on-site clinics.

Scandinavian Airlines System Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) used Visual Studio .NET and the Mobile Internet Toolkit, to provide new services to its increasingly wireless customer base. Now, customers can check flight status and rebook flights from mobile phones and devices.

Siemens Energy and Automation The Industrial Automation group of Siemens Energy and Automation is developing prototypes of a new generation of HMI Panels using the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework.

Simplexity, Inc. Learn why Simplexity had been developing its Web solutions on the Java platform but has now migrated to the Microsoft .NET platform.

SunGard SunGard Trading and Risk Systems turned to Visual Studio .NET to provide Web-based access to its powerful Panorama calculating engines, databases, and other Web services. See other Sungard case studies.

Telenor Telenor, the Norwegian telecommunications group with international operations, used Visual Studio .NET to replace its online point-of-sale customer service system on time and on budget.

Toshiba TEC Corporation Toshiba TEC has not only adopted Microsoft .NET, but also has built a reusable framework and development tools around .NET for building Retail Information Systems.

Travelers Property Casualty Travelers Property Casualty used Microsoft .NET and Visual Studio .NET to build a set of XML Web services for servicing auto glass damage claims.

U.S. Army The Contractor Support Element (CSE) of the U.S. Army’s Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) shifted from a manual system based on faxes and other paper documents, to an online system that they created using Visual Studio .NET.

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) expects to greatly enhance its easement tracking services by deploying an n-tier .NET-based Web solution created by Synergetics, Inc.

Universal Forest Products, Inc. When Universal Forest Products needed a new centralized Production Scheduling System, they turned to SageStone, Inc. and the Visual Studio .NET development system.

UnumProvident Direct By migrating to the Microsoft .NET platform, UnumProvident Direct (UPD) expects to greatly improve its ability to service business partners with a dynamic visual interface and inter-component communication.

Webridge Powered by Microsoft .NET, Webridge Extranet utilizes the .NET Framework to provide an easy-to-implement, cost-effective way to build and customize extranet portals.

West Group West Group used Visual Studio .NET and the.NET Framework to develop ease-of-use enhancements to its WestFind&Print service, giving researchers easy access to its services.

Wizards of the Coast When players of MLB Showdown wanted an online repository for its MLB Showdown sports card game stats, Wizards of the Coast developers turned to Microsoft .NET technology.

Xerox Global Services Using Visual Studio .NET, Xerox Global Services developers rewrote an existing printer management solution from the ground-up in just six months—an effort that originally took a larger team 18 months to complete. See other Xerox Global Services case studies.

Zagat Survey By building its new content management system using Visual Studio .NET, Zagat Survey will realize the benefits provided of building, deploying, and running XML Web services and applications.

Visual Studio .NET Customer Solutions Read how companies have built sophisticated, enterprise-wide applications with Visual Studio .NET, and learn how they have dramatically reduced their usual development time.

Microsoft .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET Customers Learn about the companies building and deploying XML Web services and distributed applications using the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET.

[Dominic Harr]

Hell, this came from Microsoft's site, for you to find, instead of bashing .NET and saying that "no one" is using it.

To repeat for the 324th time, I've all seen the MS-paid for "case studies".

I've actually read almost all of those. They've done some interesting things, altho nothing revolutionary. Prototyping, building some .NET tools, some theory work, and in the most advanced cases web forms. But in none of those case studies are there any details. That stuff is all by MS 'strategic partners' and 'early adopters' -- people specifically paid to find things for .NET to do, and with MS handling the press releases, which alone makes the entire thing suspect as a sales pitch.

We're looking for a single independent example, from real world developers, of a major, large-scale production system.

Know of any first-hand?

If .NET is as successful as you say, you must know of one, I assume?

[Southack]

"Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank's Global Equity Derivatives unit gave its developers access to XML Web services and ASP.NET custom controls with Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework."

Just for the record, Deutsche Bank's IT division is a major competitor of my firm. Today they went down to Florida for a MAJOR client to demo their VB .Net product that competes with our VB 6 product.

I got the giggly phone call from one of the client's staffers this afternoon. Deutsche Bank's VB .Net app failed to download, failed to install, and failed to run. They killed three hours with principals of this client looking on (not good to waste EVP's time, either).

Now last year when their app was still in VB 6, they nailed their demo and snagged quite a few clients.

Not now with Dot Net. Oh, they thought that their code had been converted properly, and they knew that they had properly tested it.

Amatuers.

The good news is that their flub will make my firm even richer.

Such is life in production, where real coding counts for more than bells and whistles, and where professionals know what true backwards compatibility is worth...