Microsoft releases beta version of Host Integration Server 2004
Tuesday 16 December 2003

Microsoft will release the second beta of Host Integration Server 2004, countering earlier suggestions that the product would not be upgraded because its functionality would be rolled into other Microsoft e-business server products.

Host Integration Server 2004 succeeds the 2000 version of the software, released in August 2000. The update promises to make it easier to link Windows systems with IBM mainframes and midrange AS/400 servers, known as its iSeries servers. It is also meant to make it easier for customers to migrate away from those IBM systems, and steps up competition with IBM's WebSphere offerings.

Microsoft has about 10,000 Host Integration Server customers, mostly large enterprises who use the product in branch offices for access to applications and data on IBM mainframes or AS/400 machines, said Paul Larsen, group programme manager for e-business servers at Microsoft.

Source: ComputerWeekly
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