| nline world of ecommerce is one that is projected to | | | | cart to process a transaction. This means ultimately |
| experience enormous growth over the next ten years. | | | | more money to them. The more people who can |
| There are many good reasons behind why the internet | | | | access and use the software means that a merchant |
| has grown so enormously over the past ten or twelve | | | | no longer has to wonder if they are losing credible |
| years, since the original .com boom in the early 90s. As | | | | sales that they spent good marketing dollars to |
| the internet has continued to grow and grow, like an | | | | acquire, which are literally being thrown out the window |
| electronic tree, the web has become literally inundated | | | | due to inter-compatibility issues between different |
| with millions of merchants all peddling their wares, so to | | | | users. |
| speak, and trying to cash in on the cow that is the | | | | Furthermore, most .Net Shopping Carts are compatible |
| internet money pool. | | | | with all versions of Windows operating systems, and in |
| The purveyor of the .Net Shopping Cart is Microsoft, | | | | many cases there are a variety of Direct X plug-ins |
| who converted the technology from their originally and | | | | and other plug-ins that can be offered to the user who |
| fairly lousy ASP (Active Pages Technology) when | | | | experiences incompatibility. Finally, even Mac users will |
| they released the .net framework 1.0 in 2002. The | | | | be able to enjoy the creature comforts of the |
| newer .Net Shopping Cart technology was created to | | | | software because most Apples come with a .net |
| streamline web services by allowing programmers | | | | interface preinstalled. |
| with a much more powerful and far more secure | | | | When it comes to merchants and designers liking the |
| technology with which to create web pages, shopping | | | | many positive facets of .Net Shopping Carts, they are |
| portals and secure, effective web applications. | | | | all in agreement, they are just far easier to build, take |
| So now that you know the origins, it is time to talk | | | | up less online space and are more secure and |
| about why it is so effective. Because it uses a more | | | | compatible to a greater number of users. Large credit |
| common XML interface and because this type of | | | | card batch processing companies have even custom |
| shopping cart platform is compatible with any | | | | tailored their software just for .Net Shopping Carts |
| computer that has a .net interface installed, which is | | | | because they all know big business when they see it, |
| most computers on the web, a .Net Shopping Cart is | | | | and to be honest, Bill Gates is the epitome of big |
| actually a web programmers' dream when it comes to | | | | business. |
| creating secure online payment processors that offer | | | | Another very positive factor about these sorts of |
| the uncompromised transfer of data on the World | | | | shopping carts is that the code is streamlined on just |
| Wide Web. In fact, more people use either an ASP or | | | | about every server on the planet earth. In fact, a |
| a .Net Shopping Cart than just about any other | | | | developer would actually have a hard time finding a |
| shopping cart application in the world. And for a good | | | | host that did not accept the ASP or .NET code. And in |
| number of reasons too. | | | | the mind of the hosting company, it would be foolish |
| First and foremost, with this type of system, online | | | | not to offer compatibility with such a widely used and |
| merchants and vendors are assured that most people | | | | common day application such as this. |
| on most computers will be able to use their shopping | | | | |