Microsoft is working to tighten integration between the upcoming SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and the current Content Management Server 2002, sources said.
New linkage software, code-named Spark, was dubbed by one source close to the company as "glue code similar to current integration packs." It is due within months of the new portal server software itself. SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is due late this summer or early fall.
"They needed to rewrite the current SharePoint/Content Management integration kit given the new SharePoint server architecture anyway," he said.
A Microsoft partner familiar with the plans said the company sometimes refers to this linkage software internally as "SharePoint Plus 90" meaning it will debut within 90 days of the portal.
The source called Spark a stop gap measure since Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft's long-term plan is to put content management capabilities into its "Discovery" e-business suite next year.
That suite will also meld e-commerce and integration capabilities and offer tight ties to SharePoint Portal Server, Microsoft executives have said.
In the meantime, Microsoft shipped beta code of BizTalk Server 2004, aka Voyager, early this month. Voyager is viewed as phase one of Jupiter while Discovery is phase two.
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