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MS-Watch | at | by Mike
'Smart clients' will be the next big buzzword out of Redmond. Just ask Siebel Systems. Redmond's "smart client" onslaught officially has begun. On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that Siebel has developed - with Microsoft's aid - a new technology called "Siebel Smart Client," which is designed to build on top of the Microsoft .Net Framework and integrate with the Office System 2003 family.
"Siebel 7.7 will allow users to link Microsoft Office Outlook(r) 2003 records to data in the Siebel database, and the Siebel Exchange Connector will allow users to synchronize calendar information, contacts and to-do lists between Siebel 7.7 and Microsoft Exchange. Additional calendar options will be available via the Outlook View Control embedded in Siebel 7.7," according to Microsoft's press release.