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Compaq,
CSC, ISVs and Key Customers Highlight Growing Momentum For Microsoft's
Application Server Technologies
Integrators, Independent Software Vendors and Customers
Choose Microsoft's Application Server Technologies to Develop Successful
Products and Solutions in the Enterprise REDMOND, Wash. - Feb. 24, 1999 - Momentum for Microsoft
Corp.'s application server technologies continues to grow as several key
companies such as Compaq Computer Corp. and 1-800-FLOWERS announce their support
for the technologies, which run on the Microsoft® Windows NT®
Server operating system. Compaq, the second-largest computer company in the world and
the largest supplier of personal computers, today announced a system of
worldwide architecture services labs dedicated to Microsoft's application server
and Windows® Distributed interNet Applications (Windows DNA)
technologies. "Our investment in these centers and labs is in response
to the industrywide need for developers who have experience with the Microsoft
application server technologies, including COM, Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS)
technology, Internet Information Services (IIS) and Active Server Pages,"
said John Rando, senior vice president and group general manager, Compaq
Services. "Skilled developers in these technologies are in demand, and
Compaq is taking the lead in helping these developers create applications with
high performance, scalability and high availability." Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) also announced today a dedicated
practice, with headquarters in Waltham, Mass., that will specialize in the
delivery of enterprise scale solutions to its clients using Microsoft's
application server technologies. CSC develops individual business solutions that
are delivered by 49,000 employees in more than 700 offices worldwide in areas
such as management and information technology consulting, system consulting and
integration, operations support, and information services outsourcing. "Microsoft's application server technologies provide us
the right mix of development tools and distributed run-time capabilities for
delivering large-scale business applications," said David Krieger, chief
architect of technology services at CSC. "We can deliver our solutions
faster by using Windows NT application services and the COM programming model,
giving our clients a time-to-market advantage without sacrificing their
extensible application architecture." Independent software vendors such as ONTOS Inc. and XtremeSoft
Inc. have created applications that also take advantage of the rich Microsoft
application server technologies provided within Windows NT Server 4.0. ONTOS develops and markets products and services that allow
companies involved in deploying Internet or distributed applications to easily
integrate their component-based applications with corporate data. "ONTOS is
pleased to announce support for the most popular application development
technologies in the industry today," said Ken Lord, vice president of
marketing at ONTOS. "At ONTOS we are able to deliver scalable,
cost-effective solutions to our customers in unprecedented time frames because
we leverage the Microsoft application server technologies." XtremeSoft announced COMitor, a software product that enables
performance monitoring and management of MTS and, in the future, COM+
applications. COMitor provides the tools for application developers and system
managers to successfully develop and deploy next-generation applications.
"We built COMitor for the Microsoft application server technologies because
it is the most popular platform for building and deploying distributed
applications in the industry," said Steve Weiss, president of XtremeSoft.
"We will continue to extend and enhance the COMitor product line to support
even more of the many richly integrated services found in the Microsoft
application server technologies." Enterprise customers such as 1-800-FLOWERS and Scandinavian
Airlines are also running their high-volume businesses on Microsoft application
server technologies. The Web site of 1-800-FLOWERS, the Westbury, N.Y., company
with 150 retail outlets and sales of over $300 million in 1998, uses Windows NT
Server 4.0 application server technologies such as MTS and IIS. "At
1-800-FLOWERS we are currently running the core of our business on Microsoft's
application server technologies," said Chris McCann, senior vice president
of 1-800-FLOWERS. "At times our Web site, 1800flowers.com, takes more than
40,000 orders a day, and it is designed to easily grow to handle additional
traffic as needed." Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) operates an average of 1,000
flights per day around the world and allows its customers to access its
reservation system via the Web. This allows customers to make travel plans and
reservations in just minutes using Microsoft technology. "At SAS we found
that Microsoft's application server technologies provided us with the best
possible solution for developing Web applications," said Håkan Alvgren,
manager of sales and distribution development at SAS. "It has enabled us to
create more applications in a shorter time frame, which is crucial for a
successful Web strategy today." Microsoft's application server technologies
allow the SAS site to handle thousands of Internet clients daily while
maintaining security and performance. "Microsoft is very pleased with today's announcements
made by a wide range of companies that emphasize the growing adoption of
Microsoft's application server technologies," said Joe Maloney, group
manager, platform marketing at Microsoft. "Microsoft's application server
technologies provide the rich services and tools that enterprises need to
develop distributed Web-based applications." Use of Microsoft's application server technologies continues
to grow at an unprecedented rate in the marketplace. According to Forrester
Research, a "whopping 46 percent of the Fortune 1,000 companies interviewed
by Forrester use Microsoft Transaction Server as their application server."
This strong momentum of integrators, software vendors and customers continues to
drive market adoption of the Microsoft application server technologies to new
heights. About Microsoft's Application Server Technologies Microsoft's application server technologies are a group of
software services, which have been licensed for years with Windows NT Server,
that support the creation of robust, scalable server applications accessible
from browser and nonbrowser clients. Microsoft's application server technologies
include common features such as support for building Web-based applications,
support for transactions, a unifying component model, database connection
pooling and load balancing. The integrated technologies composing the Microsoft
application server include Microsoft Transaction Server, Active Server Pages,
Internet Information Server, Microsoft Message Queue Services, and Component
Object Model. Microsoft application server technologies provide the
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