No blackcomb as product, but as win2k3 add-ons

Today at WinHEC Microsoft Corporate Vice President David Thompson revealed that the company’s Blackcomb project will not be delivered as a major server upgrade as previously expected:

“Blackcomb will not be released in 3-4 years [as a single product],” Thompson said. “Instead, we will be rolling out additions to [Windows Server 2003] in a steady stream [over time].” In 2003 alone, Thompson noted, Microsoft will release a number of out-of-band upgrades to Windows Server 2003, many of which he said were part of the Blackcomb project. These technologies include the iSCSI initiator in June, NAS 3.0 in Q2 2003, Automated Deployment Services (ADS) in Q3 2003, Small Business Server 2003 in Q3 2003, Virtual Server in Q4 2003, and the AMD/64-bit version of Windows Server 2003, while will be delivered “in Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003 by the end of 2003,” Thompson said.

“These out-of-band releases are effectively part of Windows Server,” Thompson said, “and they will be serviced as part of Windows Server through the service pack stream. Innovation does not have to wait for major releases.”

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Source : winnetmag.com