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March 1, 1999
Site Server Includes Portal PlanBy Clinton Wilder
icrosoft's next generation of Web servers will incorporate knowledge-and
document-management products separate from its commerce server being unveiled this week.According to analysts, the next generation of the Site Server product line will be split in two directions, code-named Tahoe and Polar Server. Tahoe will serve as a knowledge-management "portal," comprising functions such as document management and search, publishing templates, and the ability to index documents with the Extensible Markup Language. Polar will use pieces of SQL Server and Exchange Server to focus on document tracking and collaboration.
"Site Server right now is like a shoebox, holding a lot of different parts that don't really fit together," says Mike Gotta, a program director at the Meta Group Inc. "It's very hard to position something that has that many different personalities."
Gotta and other analysts say the move is partly a response to Lotus' recent repositioning of
Notes and Domino as knowledge- and document-management software. But Tahoe and Polar won't
be released until at least six months after Windows 2000.
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