Microsoft Goes Their Own Way with Data Warehousing Alliance 2000
M. Reed - December 1, 1999

Event Summary

'REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced that 47 applications and tools from 39 top vendors throughout the industry have qualified for Microsoft« Data Warehousing Alliance 2000. Alliance members and partners are committed to delivering tools and applications based on the Microsoft Data Warehousing Framework 2000, an open architecture for building business intelligence and analytical applications based on the open standards and services built into the Windows« 2000 operating system, Microsoft SQL ServerÖ 7.0 and Office 2000. Application vendor membership for the Data Warehousing Alliance has more than doubled since it was originally announced in October 1998.'..