Updated: July 12, 2020 (May 31, 2004)
Analyst ReportVisual Studio Targets Application Life Cycle
Roughly 18 months after IBM acquired Rational, the leading provider of application life-cycle tools, Microsoft has announced its own suite of tools for application modeling, project scheduling, and team development. Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) will be part of Visual Studio 2005 (code-named Whidbey).
IBM’s Dec. 2002 acquisition of Rational, on whom Microsoft had relied for application life-cycle tools, led many customers to believe that Rational would place more emphasis on WebSphere and Linux rather than on Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. Although the VSTS features are not as comprehensive as Rational’s offerings, they do address the team development features that are most commonly used by all developers. In addition, they mark a significant change in Microsoft’s tools strategy, which has focused on the core “compile-edit-debug” portion of the development cycle and left the remaining parts to partners.
Focus on Team Development, Modeling
The major components of VSTS help developers with the following tasks:
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