Building Connected Systems: The .NET Framework and the Microsoft Enterprise Application Development Platform is a new whitepaper posted on MSDN last week. It is the first of a serier of papers that describes Microsoft’s enterprise application development platform.

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An enterprise software application platform suitable for building connected systems is much more than a traditional application server and includes such elements as client and server operating systems, development tools, applications services, and so on. Most organizations utilize products from multiple vendors for these elements of their enterprise software development platform, and hence require that all elements be able to interoperate and integrate with elements supplied by different vendors.

This paper, the first in the Microsoft Enterprise Application Development Strategy series, describes the comprehensive Microsoft enterprise application development platform for building connected systems. It covers the core components of this platform, including the support for core standards and service orientation that enable each element to interoperate with elements provided by different software vendors.

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thanks to Marc Monplaisir  for blogging the link.