Proven Application Platform Benefits
With Windows Server 2003 and with Visual
Studio .NET 2003, customers are building
applications in half the time with twice the
performance. Early adopters of the application
platform report a 60-percent reduction in
application development time.
Built for Increasing Business Value
Time-to-market pressures and shrinking
budgets often constrain how much application
development teams can deliver. Both external and
internal customers rely on them to integrate and
deliver systems quickly—while ensuring that data
centers run reliability and securely.
What's needed is an end-to-end platform that
helps organizations design, develop, deploy, and
manage their solutions more efficiently while
building on what they already have in talent or
in systems.
The Solution: Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 works with Microsoft
Visual Studio® .NET to boost productivity
throughout the application lifecycle, from
design and development through deployment and
operations. Visual Studio .NET makes it easy to
build solutions quickly, while Windows Server
2003 provides an application platform that helps
ensure applications are manageable and easy to
deploy.
Based on a secure IT infrastructure, the
Windows Server 2003 application platform helps
businesses:
- Build new solutions from the ground up.
- Integrate legacy and line-of-business
applications.
- Deliver high-performance, reliable
solutions that are easy to install and
maintain.
Benefits
Complete Platform for Quickly Building
Connected Solutions
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Built-In Application Services |
Windows
Server 2003 provides a dependable
application platform that enables
businesses to connect quickly and lower
total cost of ownership (TCO).
Traditional application server
functionality is built in, yet
developers can also take advantage of
operating system capabilities such as
reliable application hosting and
instrumentation. Window Server 2003
provides a rich Web application
development model, too, with ASP. NET
and a high performance Web engine with
Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0. |
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Integrated .NET Framework |
The
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 delivers
consistent, well-factored libraries for
transactions, messaging, caching, XML
processing, data access, IO, logging,
and more. |
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Faster Development with Visual Studio
.NET 2003 |
Teams
can build connected applications with
one-sixth the code with Visual Studio
.NET 2003 and Windows Server 2003.
Visual Studio .NET provides the highly
productive development environment that
architects and coders can use to
leverage the .NET Framework programming
model and build a wide variety of
application types. As a result, less
time is spent optimizing and configuring
applications—with the added benefit of a
consistent programming model. |
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Built-in UDDI Services |
Enterprise Universal Description,
Discovery and Integration (UDDI)
services provide a directory service for
Web services. Through UDDI, developers
can locate available Web services in
their organization easily and quickly. |
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Better Security and Dependability with
IIS 6.0 |
A new
fault-tolerant process architecture
provides maximum dependability and
availability to IIS 6.0, the complete
Web server available in all versions of
Windows Server 2003. In addition,
security can be programmed in through
native support for standards, including
public key infrastructure (X.509),
Kerberos, and Security Assertion Markup
Language (SAML). |
The Power of an Integrated Platform
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Service-oriented Architecture |
Today's
solutions demand extensible,
interoperable, loosely coupled
applications. Windows Server 2003
provides the application services needed
for a service-oriented architecture,
which simplifies maintenance and
management as needs change. |
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Native XML Web Services Support |
Native
support for Web services makes it easier
to build interoperable applications that
keep businesses connected with
customers, partners, and suppliers. Web
Services Enhancements 1.0 provides the
latest Global XML Architecture (GXA)
standards support for WS-Security and
WS-Transaction. In addition, COM+
components can be exposed directly as
Web services or as components that can
be consumed through remoting. |
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Better Integration of Existing
Investments |
Developers can easily integrate line-of
business applications with existing
UNIX, mainframe, Novell, and J2EE
systems—as well as all data sources.
Using the ASP.NET XML Web services
features, developers can write their
business logic and rely on the ASP.NET
infrastructure to deliver that service
via SOAP and other public protocols. |
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Simplified Integration and
Interoperability |
XML Web
services deliver the foundation and
architecture for application integration
that enable servers and services to
interoperate across trust boundaries.
Support for connected applications is
built in through standards: XML, SOAP,
WSDL, and UDDI. |
Windows Application Services for Easier
Deployment and Operations
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Simplified Deployment |
Windows
Server integrates enterprise services,
directory services, and UDDI services
into the operating system, making it
easier to deploy reliable, scalable, and
secure applications. |
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Better Administration and Management |
Windows
Server 2003 provides a reliable platform
for application deployment and
management through the .NET Framework,
IIS 6.0, and core platform components.
Developers can easily instrument
applications using Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI), while process
recycling and remote administration
simplify operations experience. |
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Reliable Clustering |
Support
for larger clusters provides better
scalability plus high availability. Both
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition,
and Windows Server 2003, Datacenter
Edition, support server cluster
configurations of up to eight nodes to
allow increased flexibility for
deployments. |
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Improved Network Load Balancing |
Now all
versions of Windows Server 2003 support
network load balancing—and versions can
interoperate. With the new Network Load
Balancing Manager, it's easier to manage
and configure clusters. |
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