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News is out that Microsoft has grounded Discovery (Jupiter v2) - this was the planned server suite containing next generation portal and integration products.

The truth is that the vision of common services on a common platform is still alive but there are no longer plans to ship all the ebusiness products in the same box. The aim now is to align the Jupiter vision with the Windows Server Systems brand push.

As part of the new plans, one key objective is to align the road map between Content Management Server and SharePoint Portal Server. SharePoint Portal Server wasn't slated to be part of Discovery, although some industry observers thought it should have been. In the past few months, Microsoft had made several organizational moves that put Discovery's future in doubt.

On the immediate horizon is the rollout of BizTalk Server 2004 (aka Voyager or Jupiter v1) on March 2.