If .NET was Microsoft's response to Enterprise Java, then Indigo is Microsoft's answer to service-oriented architecture (SOA). As Microsoft incubates the Indigo platform, analysts predict that it will position the company as a strong competitor against application platform vendors.
Microsoft never had a strong presence in the enterprise asynchronous messaging market and its .NET technology did not position the company to really boast about SOA, according to a recent report from Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc.
But Indigo, a set of .NET technologies for building and running connected systems using a Web services architecture and a service-oriented programming model, will change all that, according to the report.
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