LOOKING TO MAKE good on its vow to boost its e-commerce offerings, Microsoft on Wednesday will announce the release of the beta of Commerce Server 2000 at PC Expo in New York.

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With Commerce Server 2000, Microsoft aims to give users the ability to quickly and easily build Web sites with rich business-to-business and business-to-customer functionality. Formerly called Site Server Commerce Edition, Commerce Server 2000 is expected to ship by the end of the year.

The software, a key piece of Microsoft's DNA (Distributed Net Applications) 2000 architecture, offers wizard-based Web site creation tools as well as templates to build components, such as catalogs.

In particular, Commerce Server 2000 will mesh with another server from the Redmond, Wash.-based company, BizTalk Server 2000. Unveiled at the Microsoft TechEd conference earlier this month and also expected to ship by the end of 2000, BizTalk Server 2000 is an XML-based back-end integration server that will link myriad systems and applications over the Internet, thanks in large part to technology called "orchestration," a service that connects various business processes.

Microsoft collaborated with Interwoven on a content management technology for Commerce Server 2000, called Content Express. Officials at Interwoven, a Sunnyvale, Calif., company, said Content Express will integrate with Commerce Server 2000's Business Desk console.

"We are the content management system underneath [Commerce Server 2000], underpinning it," said Jeff Englemann, vice president of marketing at Interwoven. "We have been working with Microsoft for a couple of months now to integrate a fully functional content management system underneath it."