FUSION: Microsoft touts Sharepoint 2.0
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Los Angeles Microsoft on Saturday offered a glimpse of the next version of Sharepoint Portal Server boasting improved collaboration capabilities. Known as Sharepoint 2.0, the product will have close technical ties to Microsoft's Office 11, not due until mid-2003, as well as a new product called Small Business Server codenamed Bobcat, also due to ship next year. The product will also include Sharepoint Team Services 2.0, which Raikes showed off during a keynote at last month's TechXNY conference in New York. Playing to the reseller and systems integrators attending the keynote, Rakes said the upcoming version will include templates designed specifically so partners can more easily customize right out of the box. Microsoft has sold over seven million seats of Sharepoint over the course of its first year of availability, Raikes said.