1060 NetKernel originated from Hewlett Packard Laboratories out of the need to solve the fundamental economic limits of existing approaches to developing complex systems. Through its ability to manage complexity, NetKernel makes possible systems that would previously have been economically unfeasible and enables the next generation of significantly more ambitious systems in a timely and quality focused manner.

Service Oriented Microkernel: 1060 NetKernel applies the principles of service oriented design across every aspect of the platform. Where the industry has embraced SOA for distributed systems, NetKernel applies these same principles inwards - down to the finest granularity of individual software components.

XML Application Server: 1060 NetKernel Standard Edition provides 100s of XML technologies as simple services which together create a powerful XML application server. NetKernel provides the infrastructure that developers need to rapidly build powerful XML message processing systems with the capabilities to eliminate the complexity, performance and management challenges of processing XML. You can think of the NetKernel XML tools as like the line-based ASCII tools (sed, awk, grep etc etc) provided with Unix - NetKernel is not limited to XML processing, XML is just a common and convenient datatype.