Benefits from Windows .NET Server, Titanium
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Microsoft corporate vice president and CIO Rick Devenuti is seeing several benefits from an internal early deployment of Windows .NET Server 2003 and expecting others with the Exchange Titanium release. Devenuti laid out some of those benefits on Wednesday during a keynote for attendees of the MEC 2002 show in Anaheim, Calif. Microsoft's IT group is in an unusual position for an IT department. In addition to the usual priority of a Fortune 500 IT department, which Devenuti describes as "providing a world-class utility," a higher priority for Microsoft's IT group is being Microsoft's first and best customer.
Internally, Microsoft calls the process "eating its own dogfood," and right now that means using Windows .NET Server 2003, which is supposed to be released to manufacturing by the end of this year, and Exchange Titanium, which is scheduled to arrive in mid-2003.