Valerie Olague, director of Windows Server System marketing at Microsoft, said in a speech on Thursday that the technology will be taken from Microsoft’s BizTalk Server, which is designed to help companies integrate disparate business applications and connect to business partners.
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Microsoft has not disclosed many details about its next server platform, which is expected to go to market after its next Windows client, codenamed Longhorn, is launched in what most expect will be 2006.
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BizTalk Server 2004 is expected later this year.
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The most recent version of Microsoft’s server platform, Windows Server 2003, was launched in April last year .
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According to Netcraft’s most recent Web server survey, Microsoft Web servers held a market share of 21 percent.
