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Gates says competitors will have year-1999 problem
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September 3, 1998 by Bob Trott |
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SEATTLE
(IDG) --Microsoft's competitors will have a year-1999 problem, according
to Chairman Bill Gates.
That's when Windows NT 5.0, COM +, (Component Object Model) and Office 2000 are expected to ship, and by then SQL Server 7.0, due out in November, will be entrenched in corporations, Gates said in a keynote speech broadcast Wednesday to several Microsoft Developer Days 98 events around the nation.
That means that 1999 will be a key year for Microsoft's push into the enterprise, Gates said in the address. And the glue holding that initiative together will be Visual Studio 6.0, the development tools suite released Wednesday, he said.
Also as expected, Gates announced Office 2000 Developer Edition, which will be released next year in conjunction with Office 2000.
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The development of rich applications that are tied to the Internet and are interoperable with a variety of platforms will mean that single-function jobs eventually will become obsolete, creating a new class of knowledge workers, Gates said, whose catch phrase for such an infrastructure is the "Digital Nervous System."
"It give you the opportunity to take advantage of the talents of your employees and reach out to your customers," Gates said in his speech, which was videotaped last week.
Lead product manager Greg Leake demonstrated Visual Studio's interoperability by linking together SQL Server 7.0, Oracle 8, and Microsoft Access databases together to create a single Web report. He also showed off the suite's new ease-of-use features, such as IntelliSense, and ran through new debugging functionality in Visual InterDev and Visual Basic.
Leake also demonstrated how developers will be able to build more Web-centric Office-based applications.
"It's great to see that simplicity, and especially to see our Office and tools groups working together," Gates said.
Visual Studio 6.0 consists of Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C++ 6.0, Visual J++ 6.0, Visual FoxPro 6.0, and Visual InterDev 6.0, and ships with a copy of Windows NT 4.0 and BackOffice. For Intel and Alpha NT servers, the suite will be priced at $1,619 for the enterprise version and $1,079 for the professional version.