Content in the .NET

If you want people to rally to your cause, you need to give them something to support. With this in mind, Microsoft has been busy in 2002 releasing applications that will support its .NET Web services strategy. The latest home baked product is a new edition of Microsoft Content Management Server.

Content Management Server 2002 (CMS2002) was released in mid-October to the industry from the USA and is now available to Australian end users. The big addition to the new application is its integration into VisualStudio .NET. CMS2002 joins a range of Microsoft applications launched this year to support .NET. Together with .NET Enterprise Server, BizTalk Server, Commerce Server and SharePoint Portal Server, CMS2002 forms a .NET integrated family of products.

ÒAs companies expand their business practices over the Internet, an integrated e-business infrastructure connecting people to the information they need will be more important than ever,” said David Kiker, general manager for e-business servers at Microsoft.

Enterprise information portals, public Web sites and secure extranets are among the applications for which CMS2002 is already being used abroad. Microsoft Australia will be pushing the same roles for the application through its integrators in Australia, Dimension Data and Powerlan.

Updates for the 2002 edition include the ability to publish content to a Web site directly from Word, native support for XML, a new application development environment and improved integration with the Microsoft Application Centre.

Sustainable living organisation Greening Australia has already implemented CMS2002 for its public Web site locally. A spokesperson for Microsoft said the application is available for $92,448 per processor under Microsoft’s open licence scheme.