Microsoft releases Exchange 2010, acquires Teamprise

Microsoft made two enterprise moves on Monday, one expected and the other a bit of a surprise.

As promised, the company used its TechEd event in Berlin to release Exchange 2010, the latest version of its e-mail and calendar server software. Microsoft finalized the code for the product last month and had said it would launch at TechEd.

Microsoft VP Tami Reller talks about enterprise adoption of Windows 7 as part of a Webcast held after the first day of TechEd Europe.

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Meanwhile, the company also announced it is buying the Teamprise technology from SourceGear. Teamprise allows developers using Eclipse and those working on non-Windows operating systems to build applications using Microsoft's Visual Studio product.

"We know our customers face daily challenges with management, collaboration and development in heterogeneous environments. The industry must take steps to make interoperability a stronger business asset for our customers," senior vice president and developer unit head S. Somasegar said in a statement. "With the acquisition of the Teamprise assets, we're taking a step forward on this journey, providing customers with a viable cross-platform development solution that will help produce business results more quickly."

Microsoft didn't announce financial terms of the deal, but did say the Teamprise technology will be integrated into Visual Studio 2010.

At TechEd Europe, Microsoft also talked about enterprise adoption of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, highlighting some early customers of the two products.

"We remain just pleased and humbled by the very warm reception we're seeing," Microsoft vice president Tami Reller said in a Webcast on Monday.

As part of the same Webcast, senior vice president Chris Capossela sounded off on Cisco's announcement of updated collaboration tools that could take on Exchange.

"Rather than stitching together acquired products and calling that a solution, we've built Exchange form the ground up," he said.

[mike.gw]

I hope a compatible version of the Blackberry Enterprise server ships at the same time as Exchange 2010!

[Random_Walk]

"Microsoft didn't announce financial terms of the deal, but did say the Teamprise technology will be integrated into Visual Studio 2010. "

Oh, Heaven forbid that someone should write a Windows app without using VS!

[FutureGuy]

How is forcing you to do that. I think its a great deal, more value for money.

[Seaspray0]

Random Walk. You're just jelous.

[WinNoMo]

Microsoft likes to buy up companies that make using other operating systems easy. Then they destroy it. Virtual PC anyone?

[webdev511]

I think you and I have a different understanding of what 'destroyed' means.

The fact that MS added hardware virtualization support to Virtual PC and cut the price to zero means it's destroyed?

[lazycat202]

no wonder you and Random_walk are on the same boat.

[Mr. Dee]

Actually, the team from Connectix are responsible for products such as Hyper-V and Windows Virtual PC Mode, so its quite obvious you don't have a clue about what you are saying. Also, Virtual PC 2007 SP1 works just fine on Windows 7 for persons who don't have hardware based virtualization support in their processors.

[Otto Holland]

Blackberry Enterprise use a simple connector to Exchange and will work with any version. As the last poster wrote; Virtual PC is free and all aspects of Hyper-V is free with the operating system (Windows Server with V, Enterprise or Data Center. On the desktop, free as well and anyone can download a copy from MS; yes, I use it right now with Vista, in order to test Windows 7.