Sun Microsystems's acquisition of MySQL was "a billion-dollar vote for the LAMP stack."
- By John K. Waters
- 04/16/2008
sQL Server 2008 offers new support for spatial data types that some analysts say should deliver a real boost to geospatial applications and data sharing.
- By Patrick Marshall
- 04/14/2008
Microsoft's latest tally of MCPs shows MCTS: Vista-Configuration to be one of the hotter certifications.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/10/2008
Microsoft blogger lists 12 exams for SQL Server 2000 and Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003 that will retire soon after support for those products ends.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/20/2008
An updated Reporting Services may finally be worth considering.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 03/19/2008
At last week's VMworld, BEA and VMware announced their partnership on a project to allow BEA's Java applications to work within virtual environments created with VMware's tools.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/06/2008
One week after Microsoft officially launched the 2008 versions of Windows Server, Visual Studio and SQL Server, the company has taken its show on the road.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/05/2008
Microsoft and Google both recently added to their in-the-clouds application offerings.
According to blogger Nicholas Carr, Microsoft may be preparing to make a major Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) announcement soon, possibly at its Mix '08 conference this week in Las Vegas
Redmond officially rolls out Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in Los Angeles event.
Sun Microsystems today said it has completed its $1 billion acquisition of open source database vendor MySQL and will move aggressively to acquire other open source vendors.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/26/2008
Lattix today is offering the latest version of its large-scale management and rearchitecting solution for service-oriented architectures and complex systems.
One of the great things about virtualization is that it makes it incredibly easy to add a new server -- or 10, or 100 new servers.
While Microsoft's announcement yesterday that it will publish key APIs and share its communications protocols was met with skepticism by the European Commission and other critics, .NET developers we talked with welcomed the step that Redmond had defiantly resisted until now.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/22/2008
Although 54 percent of large enterprises around the globe rate management of their virtual server environment as a critical or high IT priority, fewer than half (45 percent) think their companies are doing it effectively, according to CA's global survey about virtualized environments released this week.
- By James E. Powell
- 02/21/2008
A fully baked beta release of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 is now available for testing.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/19/2008
Microsoft Corp. to give away Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server Standard and other software to college students worldwide.
The second Alfresco Open Source Barometer survey found a general trend toward the use of mixed open source and proprietary software in the enterprise.
Today at Microsoft's Office System Developer Conference (OSDC) in San Jose, Calif., Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates commented on what he thinks Yahoo got right -- and wrong -- just as Yahoo formally rejected the Redmond, Wash.-based company's initial offer.
In a move that could help deliver single sign-on to the masses, Google, Microsoft, IBM, VeriSign and Yahoo have joined a consortium that backs a common federated identity specification.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/08/2008