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To: Hectorite who wrote (6989)	9/15/1999 1:17:00 AM
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Microsoft still touts CitrixMicrosoft Woos Developers (09/13/99, 1:50 p.m. ET) By Stuart Glascock, TechWeb Microsoft is releasing Windows 2000 Release Candidate 2 (RC2), as part of week-long campaign to rally developers behind the Windows 2000 operating system. Microsoft is giving out Win 2000 RC2, one of the final milestones on the road to shipping product, to all 19,000 attendees at a DevDays event to be held Wednesday, a company spokesman said. The release of RC2 will be the last major release of Windows 2000 test code before it goes to manufacturing on Nov. 15, according to BetaNews.com, a website that tracks products before they ship. But the renewed push to please developers started in earnest Monday morning. In the first of a series of announcements planned for this week, the company early on Monday outlined a package of developer tools for the forthcoming operating system. It also claimed tremendous strides among independent software vendor (ISV) commitment to the new operating system. Further cultivating developers, Microsoft began offering a Visual Studio developed system 6.0 with the Win 2000 Developer's Readiness Kit and the Visual Studio Solutions Center for Win 2000. At a press conference on Monday, Steve Ballmer, president, and Paul Maritz, developer group vice president, will outline a new set of Web tools, Distributed InterNet Architecture or DNA management tools, to make it easier to administer clusters of Windows servers. Two days later, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant hosts nearly 20,000 developers at a DevDays '99 event in 32 cities across the United States and Canada. The events are to evangelize and pump up interest in writing applications for the system that is scheduled to ship before the end of the year. CEO Bill Gates will open each event with a videotaped presentation. This frenetic developer relations activity is far from superficial. The risk of losing developer support is something new to Microsoft, said Dwight Davis, an analyst at Summit Strategies. "The developer community has been securely in Microsoft's pocket," Davis said. "It had the volume platform, good developer programs -- and still has the gold standard for developer programs -- but IBM, Sun, and Oracle have put a lot of money into developer programs, and have been much more aggressive in competing for developers they used to just cede to Microsoft." Microsoft said more than 2,000 ISVs are building over 4,600 applications and participating in the Windows 2000 Readiness Program. Some 1,000 of those are ready to ship concurrently with the release of Win 2000 later this year, Microsoft said. Among those participating in the readiness program are: American Express, Unisys, RSW Software, Rational Software, Fujitsu Software, Citrix Systems, NCR, Technologies,, USWeb/CKS, and Alibre.