Microsoft Readies Interoperability Server

SAN MATEO (02/23/2000) - ALMOST A YEAR after first talking about "Babylon," Microsoft this week has released the first beta of its Host Integration Server 2000, formerly known by that biblical code name.

An upgrade to SNA Server 4.0, Host Integration Server -- expected to ship this summer for Windows NT and Windows 2000 -- aims to let administrators running Windows operating systems and server applications interact with various mainframe, minicomputer, and Unix interfaces and data.

A future member of the BackOffice server applications family, Host Integration Server will feature support for XML and COM+, integrated CICS/IMS transactions, Microsoft Message Queue 2.0, and IBM's MQSeries 5.1. It also is optimized to leverage Windows 2000, which was officially launched last week, according to the Redmond, Wash. software company.

More information on the beta program can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/sna/beta.asp#db2access. A second beta is expected in mid-spring, the company said.

A key piece of Microsoft's Windows DNA 2000 (Distributed Internet Applications) architecture, company officials first discussed Babylon publicly at its TechEd developers' conference last May, when they said customers were seeking help in integrating their Windows environments with legacy systems.

Microsoft Corp. is at http://www.microsoft.com/.

Bob Trott is an InfoWorld associate news editor based in Seattle.

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