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| If your business develops solutions in ASP, you could | | | | confident about the risk posed by security attacks and |
| significantly cut your development time and improve | | | | in some cases can protect companies if their terms |
| the quality, security and performance of your | | | | and conditions do not cover them against the risk of |
| applications by migrating to .NET. This article outlines | | | | security breaches. |
| some of the main benefits of this new technology. | | | | Performance: - IT Hardware is expensive - a factor |
| Migrating from ASP to ASP.Net | | | | that has to be considered when hosting an application |
| ASP was released to work on NT Server 4.0 in 1996 | | | | for a business. The .NET platform utilises the IT |
| as a scripting language used to deliver dynamic | | | | hardware more efficiently, thus significantly improving |
| content to web users. The take up of ASP has been | | | | performance. This reduces the cost required to make |
| significant over the past 6 years with a large | | | | a large application run acceptably and increases the |
| proportion of dynamic sites now being written in this | | | | number of applications that can be simultaneously |
| way. | | | | hosted on a single machine. |
| ASP is very popular with developers and it has | | | | Time: - The .NET framework provides a powerful |
| undoubtedly brought many benefits to websites. | | | | collection of code libraries covering all the major areas |
| However, it is now an older technology and is being | | | | of IT. By harnessing the power of these libraries, |
| replaced by ASP.Net. .Net has all the benefits of ASP, | | | | developers can write an application using far less lines |
| together with improved security, scalability, reliability, | | | | of code. This reduces the time taken to complete |
| flexibility and interoperability of applications. | | | | solutions significantly. As well as this, the ability to |
| IT Companies developing solutions for business in ASP | | | | re-use code in .NET is made easier, thus reducing |
| could reduce their development time and cost | | | | development time even further. |
| significantly by migrating their customers to .NET. | | | | Perceived Quality: - The .NET framework provides |
| The Benefits for Business | | | | more flexibility than any other framework available. |
| Security: - Software companies who provide their own | | | | This gives developers more choice when creating a |
| hosting have an obligation to their clients to provide | | | | solution for a client and makes it simpler than ever |
| sufficient security to ensure that the client's data is not | | | | before to add useful value-added features, currently |
| compromised. Microsoft have received very little | | | | only found on the highest quality sites. The |
| positive media coverage relating to the security of their | | | | improvement in quality that can be achieved using |
| systems. Sites hosted using ASP have had numerous | | | | .NET means that a Software company's brand can be |
| security alerts over the past 6 years which have been | | | | developed by guaranteeing higher quality software |
| corrected through the use of service packs. The .NET | | | | than its competitors. |
| framework provides a new security approach which | | | | These are just some of the many benefits that .Net |
| provides more clear and powerful control over | | | | can offer your business. |
| application security. This reduces the risk for | | | | |