Updated: July 10, 2020 (March 22, 2004)

E-Business Roadmap Shifts

As managing vice president, Rob Helm covers Microsoft collaboration and content management. His 25-plus years of experience analyzing Microsoft’s technology... more

Application integration, Web site management, and e-commerce products from Microsoft will proceed on parallel tracks, according to recent announcements. Although Microsoft has not provided an updated e-business product roadmap, the company no longer plans to deliver a single suite, code-named Jupiter version 2, that rolls up into a single package all its e-business functions. This news will be welcome to customers and resellers of application integration products such as BizTalk Server, which will likely go forward with little technical discontinuity. However, the news raises questions about the future of the Commerce Server e-commerce site-hosting software.

No Unified Integration, Portal Product

Microsoft’s e-business products support the integration of existing applications, business-to-consumer and business-to-business commerce, and management of complex Web sites. Products for these functions include the following:

BizTalk Server (application integration and business-to-business

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