Microsoft Upgrades Content Management Server for .Net

October 15, 2002

Upgrading its Web content management software and preparing for .Net-based Web services, Redmond, WA-based Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) has released Content Management Server 2002.

The Enterprise Edition of Content Management Server 2002 works with the rest of Microsoft's e-business suite, which includes Commerce Server, BizTalk Server, SharePoint Portal Server, SQL Server and Exchange 2000 Enterprise Server. The upgrades are said to enhance user productivity, beef up developer support and enhance compliance with industry standards including XML.

To make the product easier to use, Content Management Server now integrates directly with Microsoft Word, letting users publish documents from the world's most popular word processing system. While many competing systems already integrate with Word, CMS 2002 also provides Wizard-driven publishing tasks that let nontechnical users easily submit common content types while the software automatically takes care of publishing and archiving chores.

To simplify the development of content management applications, Content Management Server 2002 integrates with VisualStudio.Net. The integration provides an array of prebuilt and extensible server controls and support for source code management. New placeholder objects support XML content, and the system will also support for XML-based Web services and the .Net Framework. This will let customers expose Content Management Server content and features as Web services for content syndication and to integrate Web sites and content with other applications.

CMS 2002 is priced at $42,000 per CPU and is set for release by the end of the year.

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