Doug Purdy on Remoting
About a month ago, there was a flurry of activity around the question if remoting is dead. Now some people think that it's not dead, it just smells funny.
However, Doug Purdy pointed out today in his versioning talk at TechEd that a number of features in Longhorn are built using .Net remoting. Now we have BizTalk 2004 and Longhorn both using remoting. I think that is a clear statement that remoting will stick with us for a while. It's important to understand who each technology fits.
One has to carefully evaluate if remoting is the right choice to connect applications running on different servers. Web services provide a solution that will easily integrate with applications built with Indigo (which is still years away). If you need to communicate across AppDomains on the other hand, then remoting is your only option in the .Net Framework and future integration with Indigo is likely not an important consideration.