Create professional-quality Web pages and publish entire sites, without knowing any HTML, by using new wizards and templates. Share files and data on Windows NT, Novell NetWare and UNIX servers, and more than 55 databases, including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and Sybase databases. Rapidly create scalable Web applications using built-in distributed application services that automatically scale to serve thousands of simultaneous users. Only Windows NT Server with IIS provides this built-in capability. Developers can now focus on the business solution rather than the complexities typically associated with server application development.
Developers can rely on languages that they already know to develop components and applications.
Developers familiar with desktop applications written in any language can now write and easily debug components and applications that run on the server. Use the integrated Java Virtual Machine to provide a reliable and high-performance environment for running Java components on the server with ASP pages. Microsoft Certificate Server Digital certificates give users a secure method of logging onto a Web site without having to remember logon IDs and passwords. IIS 4.0 lets you issue and manage digital certificates that can be used by clients to access an IIS 4.0 Web site. Certificate issuance and management .