DQ 1. Microsoft has expended a lot of effort into developing productivity tools for the Web, particularly with the .NET

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DQ 1. Microsoft has expended a lot of effort intodeveloping productivity tools for the Web, particularly with the.NET strategy. However, there are many other tools for creating Websolutions, eg. PHP, ColdFusion etc... The .NET strategy isextremely comprehensive, and yet there is always the continuing usversus Microsoft argument. Discuss the merits of adopting such anapproach as a business strategy, and do you think it's wise giventhe enormous productivity gains offered by the .NET solutions?Compare any other productivity based solutions you may have comeacross in your readings.
DQ 2. Investigate the use of Web Services for theconstruction of Web applications. Discuss the statement “In thenear future, Web application development will be dominated by WebServices, and we can envisage a time when most web applicationdevelopment will involve just the calling of existing Web Services”in light of what you have read and studied over the past fewweeks.