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Technology Stocks : DOCS - A TURNAROUND PLAY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael Watkins who wrote (632)	8/24/1998 10:18:00 PM
From: Michael Pascoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1156

I can't find any reference to WebDAV in public discussions about Office 2000, but the checkout and versioning functionality looks like a snug fit to that standard. I note the following in relation to WebDAV on the MS site; "Support for WebDAV Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV) is an extension to the HTTP 1.1 standard for exposing a hierarchical file storage media, such as a file system, over an HTTP connection. Using DAV, remote authors can easily access resources on the file system over HTTP. With the IIS 5.0 implementation of DAV, users can allow remote authors to edit, move, search, or delete files and directories on your server. " microsoft.com That pretty clearly states there will be WebDAV support in NT 5.0 (anybody's guess when that might be, but I suppose sometime in 1H99). Does that potentially reduce the likes of Docs to one of the "hierarchical file storage media" and no more? If you combine a WebDAV http client (which I doubt Office 2000 is, but could easily morph into one) with a WebDAV enabled OS there's not an big pile of anything for a DM system to do except perhaps store management (and even then ... ?)