May 29, 2003 9:05 AM
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"Jupiter" Comes Into Focus
Microsoft has officially christened its "Voyager" code as "BizTalk Server 2004" and is supplying TechEd attendees with Beta One disks for its next-gen e-business suite.
What the heck is "Jupiter"? Read Microsoft Watch's Code Name explainer here.
Although Jupiter beta one isn't due out until June, Unisys announced in April that it is readying several "Team Jupiter Labs" to help customers and partners get ready for Microsoft's e-biz entrée.
All About "Yukon"
Don't expect any Beta 1 announcements at TechEd. But do expect Microsoft to have plenty to say on "Yukon," the next SQL Server rev, tentatively due out in 2004. Want to get ready for Yukon? Read our Q&A with expert Randy Holloway.
SQL Slammer: Whose fault was it? At a customer panel at the show, Microsoft and some of its enterprise customers seemed to agree that the two shared the blame.
Microsoft offered a Yukon sneak peek back in February at the VS!Live conference. Check out what they showed and told.
Read more on the Yukon-Web services connection in this eWeek story.
Live Reports From Dallas: Keynotes, Hot Topics and More
Microsoft's chief trustworthy computing strategist Scott Charney, updated attendees on Redmond's ongoing plans to protect the CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability).
Ship dates for a number of Microsoft's server products are slowly slip-sliding away, acknowledged Corporate VP Paul Flessner at the TechEd kick-off keynote.
Microsoft is expected to reveal during the show results of a study it commissioned with security experts @stake. The study found Microsoft's .Net platform to be more secure than IBM WebSphere in certain cases. Sounds like Microsoft may release the results Tuesday.
Microsoft and Verisign are teaming on a next-generation public key infrastructure solution, the two announced at the show.
Microsoft hinted at TechEd that it'll be ready to talk about "Whidbey," its next version of Visual Studio .Net at the Professional Developers Conference in October.
NAS 3.0 still isn't out yet, but Microsoft's planning to make some storage news at the show. eWeek reports that Microsoft plans to segment its storage solutions by customer size.
Microsoft will be showing off briefly its Microsoft Location Server (MLS) presence-server at TechEd next week. Find out more on MLS here.
Microsoft's going to be highlighting its Microsoft Research "NetScan" project at the show, too. Via NetScan, Microsoft is analyzing patterns in Usenet threads in order to apply that learning to future Microsoft products.
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