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Microsoft Abandons Discover Due to Customer Opinion

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February 17, 2004
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From CXOtoday Due to customer feedback, Mircosoft has shelved Discovery, its planned server suite, specifically designed to bond content management, e-commerce and EAI capabilities. According to the company, the move was in response to wide-spread user opinion, which revealed that while customers preferred simple licensing and easy-to-buy software, they were far from interested in actually buying a software suite. Apparently Discovery's baseline capabilities will now be utilized into the next-generation Windows operating system, or Longhorn, while others will surface in highly interoperable server successors to the present lineup. ... The company also intends to align the road map between Content Management Server (CMS) and SharePoint Portal Server. According to industry watchers, packaging and licensing concerns could have been one of the reasons for the change in plans. Read The Future of Microsoft Content Management. Read the article.
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Brice Dunwoodie is the founder and CEO of Simpler Media Group, publisher of CMSWire, Reworked and VKTR. With more than 25 years of enterprise software experience at the intersection of technology, business operations and executive-level strategy, Brice maintains a focus on clarity, evidence-based analysis, visionary thinking and practitioner relevance. His academic background spans California Polytechnic University and the University of Michigan with a focus on psychology, computer science and leadership practices. Connect with Brice Dunwoodie:

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