Microsoft Corp’s plans to bring BackOffice into the ActiveX fold include ActiveX Server Scripting and ActiveX Server Controls, which combine in the ActiveX Server Framework based on IIS. The Server Controls are building blocks for server-driven content to create interactive server applications. The Server Framework, which goes into beta test this summer, extends its reach to legacy systems via BackOffice components such as SNA Server. That means data on old IBM Corp mainframes can appear on the newest interactive HyperText Mark-up Language pages on the Web via BackOffice. The server scripts that make it work can be written in Visual Basic Script, PERL, JavaScript et al.
