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16 SUNBELT
TOOLS SPEED
NETWORK
DIRECTORY
ANALYSIS
20 NEXTEL
SERVICES
OFFER DIRECT
ENTERPRISE
CONNECTION
24 SUN VP
DISCUSSES
FUTURE OF
HIGH-END
SERVERS
NEWS&ANALYSIS
Beyond Windows Server
MICROSOFT PLOTS HOW TO IMPROVE THE PLATFORM OVER THE LONG HAUL
By Peter Galli
With windows server 2003just a month out of the
gates, Microsoft Corp. is already looking at ways
to deliver add-on technologies and wrestling with
the issue of how to price these technologies.
“There is some deep thinking and strong con-
sideration going on inside the server team about how to best
stage future releases and what the core elements of our
strategy should be,” said Jay Jamison, director of product plan-
ning for the Windows Server division, in Redmond, Wash.
According to Jamison, one of the ways Microsoft intends
to deliver some of that functionality
is through an “outof-band”
mechanism, where
new technologies and tools
are delivered between major
server releases.
Out-of-band technologies
could range from tools and
things such as the group
policy management console
to layered add-on services,
such as the Real-Time Communications
Server, he said.
Sources close to Microsoft
said the company is expected
to release several out-of-band
upgrades to Windows Server
2003 this year, including an
iSCSI initiator, Network
Attached Storage 3.0, Small
Business Server 2003, Windows
Virtual Server and Windows
Server 2003 for Advanced
Micro Devices Inc.’s
processors. When asked about
the list, Jamison said, it
“sounds about right.”
Thompson: “Innovation does not
have to wait for major releases.”
When it comes to largeenterprise
customers, some
are willing to pay for additional
technology rather than
have it built into the core
operating system.
“We like the idea of being
able to choose what functions
we want to install on top of
the operating system. In
some ways, it would be less
problematic than having all
of this built into the core kernel,”
said Jeff O’Dell, vice
president of archi-
tecture for health benefits
provider Cigna
Corp., in Bloomington,
Conn. “But, on
the other hand, if
functionality is already
built into the
operating system, we
can just turn it on if we
want.”
Jamison said the majority
of new functionality made
available through the out-of-
Developers expect nod
for UML 2.0 standard
By Darryl K. Taft
The object management
Group will meet in Paris
next week to vote on Version
2.0 of Unified Modeling
Language, a language that
supports analysis and design
in a variety of tools and promises
to open new horizons
for developers.
The first UML 2.0 specifications
were adopted as OMG
standards in March—covering
Infrastructure, Object
Constraint Language and Dia-
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band process will be things
that customers can download
and use freely.
“In some cases, there will
be new technologies made
available through this process
that may require an enterprise
server to run or could
require a Windows [Client
Access License] or the like,
but we have not made any
final decisions on this,” Jamison
said.
‘We like the idea of
being able to choose
what ... to install on top
of the operating system.’
—JEFF O’DELL
Dan Kusnetzky, an analyst
for International Data Corp.,
in Framingham, Mass., said
Microsoft is trying to uncou-
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gram Interchange Protocol. A
fourth specification, Superstructure,
is expected to be
voted on at the meeting next
week, completing the recommendation
process for the latest
UML version.
Few developers will be looking
forward to UML 2.0 more
than IBM. Sridhar Iyengar, a
Distinguished Engineer with
IBM, in Raleigh, N.C., and a
member of the OMG Architecture
board, said IBM
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