Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Opening Up .Net to Everyone

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Posted by Tom Jackson on

Talli wrote:

Why couldn't we take the ACS (with the data model and page flow) and simply build it using the .NET architecture then release it?

The openp2p article indicated that the datamodel must be approved and owned by MS! Otherwise you can't use the HailStorm/Passport network. The datamodel (or schema) must fit into MS's global data framework. If you are not a registered HailStorm developer, you don't even get to submit a request for an extension or change.

If this is true, I don't see this service being used for anything specialized or innovative. It might be useful for big market activities, whatever those happen to be.

Maybe I am missing something, or the article is misleading in some way, but the bottom line seems to be that although the client can be written with whatever technology you want, the result must still fit into Hailstorm/Passport and be approved by MS.