Microsoft Licenses FastLane's Consolidation Software - Company Business and Marketing

ENT, Feb 9, 2000

FastLane Technologies Inc. licensed another of its technologies to Microsoft Corp. to ease the migration from Windows NT to Windows 2000. The latest FastLane technology lets administrators migrate files from Novell Inc.'s (www.novell.com) NetWare to the Windows 2000 Server operating system.

The technology Microsoft (www. microsoft.com) is licensing is based on FastLane DM/Consolidator, which helps administrators move file data to Windows 2000 while preserving directory structures and security permissions. FastLane DM/Consolidator also allows users to maintain access to their data during the migration process.

Microsoft will incorporate the FastLane technology in the Microsoft File Migration Utility (MSFMU) component of Services for NetWare 5, which is expected to become available after the launch of Windows 2000 this month. MSFMU can assign an appropriate security access setting in Windows 2000 to each file it moves.

FastLane (www.fastlanetech.com) and other directory migration players Mission Critical Software (www.missioncritical.com), Entevo Corp. (www.entevo.com), and Aelita Software (www.aelita.com), have been gearing up for the release of Windows 2000 later this month.