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Defining The Business Value Of Technology
December 13, 1999
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Tool's web-application services and core operating-system improvements to be main appeal
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ith less than a month before Microsoft's scheduled release of Windows 2000 to manufacturing, the company is making sure business-software developers understand the benefits of upgrading.Microsoft has spared no effort to argue for the administrative and performance improvements built into its next-generation operating system, slated for general availability in February. Meanwhile, it's educating developers about Windows 2000's interoperability, transaction services, and clustering technologies.
"We're not suggesting that people ditch their NT 4 or 3.5.1 development because we've released Windows 2000," says developer-tools product manager Chris Hargarten. "But the more code you have to write to realize these benefits, the more the benefits are minimized."
Microsoft says the improvements in Windows 2000 for developers fall into three categories: Web application services, core operating-system performance enhancements, and data-access improvements.
On the services side, developers should most closely watch the integration of Internet Information Server, the COM+ set of middleware tools, and Windows 2000's ability to parse, or interpret and route, messages encoded in Extensible Markup Language, Hargarten says. For the first time, the operating system includes the ability to queue messages, so systems don't become backlogged when another server isn't immediately available. And Windows 2000 adds publish-and-subscribe capabilities, so companies can broadcast messages based on user- or group-specific policies.
Hargarten says that at run time, improvements in symmetric multiprocessing performance, memory addressability and management, and clustering for availability will also be attractive to developers.
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