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Small Business anyone? Microsoft To Add Telephony To Small Business Server (10/23/97; 1:15 p.m. EDT) By Steven Burke, Computer Reseller News <Picture>SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Microsoft senior vice president Jim Allchin said the company is working on providing telephony capabilities in its new BackOffice Small Business Server. "One thing we didn't add in the Small Business Server in the first go around is telephony," said Allchin at the launch of the BackOffice Small Business server in San Jose, Calif. "We are going to spend some time seeing if we can concoct something in this area for small businesses." Allchin said many small businesses are grappling with telephony issues in addition to accounting and sales automation. Allchin said Microsoft is also working on a number of new features to make the product more efficient for small companies with a lot of employees working on the road. One of the most important additions in the next release of the Small Business Server will be transaction capabilities. "That will be added as soon as we can," Allchin said, noting that code is already written and just needs to be integrated into the Small Business Server suite. Microsoft is also working on new versions of SQL Server for the desktop, Allchin said. "Our goal is to take SQL Server both up and down," Allchin said. "You will see versions of SQL Server on the client. It won't be SQL Server as we currently know it. You don't really see SQL Server in small business." Allchin said the company will work closely with VARs on building "blocks" that can "snap together" to solve "a business problem much simpler." "We are trying to produce a platform and have the value you add on top of that," Allchin told VARs. Microsoft also has plans to add the Website monitoring and management capabilities to its BackOffice product line, Allchin said. Allchin said Microsoft will continue to intensely focus on making the BackOffice suite easier to use. "We want a much more intuitive, helpful interface that doesn't take a long time to learn," Allchin said. "We want to be able to continue to expand sensory input. Vision is something that we are heavily investing in within Microsoft, as well as speech understanding." <Picture: TW>