Integrated Architecture
The Microsoft environment has technologies that support you and your customers from software development through to application management. These include:
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The Microsoft .NET Framework. An integral component of Windows that helps to build and run applications. This includes solutions for enterprises, the Web, and the desktop.
For more information, please visit the .NET Framework Developer Center.
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The Microsoft Visual Studio® development system, which provides an integrated environment that helps maximize developer productivity.
For more information, please visit the Visual Studio Developer Center.
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Servers—including Windows Server® 2008, Windows Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005, Microsoft BizTalk® Server 2006, Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006, and much more—these can integrate with, operate, and manage your solutions.
For more information, please visit the Microsoft Servers Web site.
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Client software—such as Windows Vista®, Windows® XP, Windows Embedded CE, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and Microsoft Office 2003—helps deliver a deep and compelling customer experience across a range of devices and products.
For more information on Windows, please visit the Windows Vista home page.
For more information on Microsoft Office, please visit the 2007 Office system home page. 
Better for You and Your Customers
When developers build with the .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 development system, they write 20 to 70 percent less code than if they used another environment. This reduces development costs and time-to-market. The class libraries and common language runtime in the .NET Framework provide the building blocks for your solution and the management services to control it. This means you can focus on adding real value to your solutions.
Customers benefit from Microsoft technology too. The smaller code base and the management tools require less maintenance and support. Solutions that run on Windows technology help users consolidate their infrastructures in the same environment. This means that they capitalize on their Microsoft investment, as well as cut the cost of maintaining multiple platforms. Customers can also deploy your solution across their enterprise, and integrate it with more systems to derive greater value.
Here Are the Facts:
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Windows has fewer updates—and develops updates faster—than Red Hat Linux, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Sun Solaris.
Source: Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec, March 2007.
Read the report.
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Executives rate the overall security of Linux and Windows almost equally, with Windows largely closing the gap that existed as recently as two years ago. Source: 2005 North American Linux and Windows Total Cost of Ownership Comparison Report, Part 1, Yankee Group.
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When a security attack occurs, Windows servers recover 30 percent faster than Linux servers.
Source: 2005 North American Linux and Windows Total Cost of Ownership Comparison Report, Part 1, Yankee Group.
For more information, please visit the Windows Server Compare Web site.
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Windows Server prevents four times as many events that would result in end-user service loss compared with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Source: Windows Server 2003 versus Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3.0, April 2005, VeriTest.
For more information, please visit the Windows Server Compare Web site.
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Windows-based systems yield mainframe-quality reliability, with 78 percent of high-end systems delivering 100 percent uptime for a year and annual unplanned downtime for all such systems averaging less than 22 minutes.
Source: Unisys Reliability Evidence Program Availability Study, 2004.
Read the study.
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Microsoft .NET-based Windows application servers outperform Java-based IBM WebSphere application servers in benchmark testing by up to 183 percent—while delivering a significantly better price-performance ratio.
Source: MSDN Visual Studio Developer Center.
Please visit Visual Studio Developer Center.
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Windows Server outperforms the mainframe in benchmarks on high-end Windows systems, such as Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition on the Unisys ES7000. Windows scales up quickly and holds many of the industry-standard records for computing performance—and does so more often than the mainframe.
Source: High-End Enterprise Servers Unisys ES7000 Benchmarks.
Read the benchmark reports.
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The Itanium 2-based Windows platform has a long-term future with significant room for innovation, say former UNIX customers who have moved to Windows Server.
Source: Migrating Business Critical Applications from UNIX to Windows and Itanium 2-Based Servers, January 2006, IDEAS Custom Consulting Services.
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The continuing costs of management and support for Linux offset any upfront acquisition cost advantages it has over Windows Server.
Source: File, Web, and Database Server Administration: The Realities Windows and Linux Administrators Face and Their Demands for Change, June 2005, META Group.
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The cost of maintaining and troubleshooting Linux networks may become 25 percent higher than the corresponding Windows network help-desk costs.
Source: 2005 North American Linux and Windows Total Cost of Ownership Comparison Report, Part 1, Yankee Group.
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Case Studies
Many software companies have already made the move to Microsoft, so check out their stories.
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 “With the Windows-based solution, Stockholmshem is enjoying more performance than it could afford on an updated mainframe, and much more performance than it saw on its legacy mainframe.” Kjell Hassel, Project Manager, EDB  “Thanks to the distributed nature of an environment based on Microsoft servers, we’ve enjoyed greater and greater availability as we’ve migrated applications from the mainframe.” Mike Viola, Principal Technologist, Open Systems, NASDAQ Stock Market |
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