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		jeroenhd on Dec 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Log4j: Between a rock and a hard place Of course, that's where Microsoft's dumb name probably came from. They already had COM, needed a new name (COM+ sucked) so they went NET.

pjmlp on Dec 12, 2021 [–]

They went with .NET because it was supposed to bring DCOM into the Cloud via SOAP.

Except Cloud still wasn't a thing back then, and we had to go through the whole SOAP, XML-RPC, REST but not really, GraphQL, gRPC fashion cycle to come back to Microsoft's vision of Web APIs.

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