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Microsoft's $60B Year-End Revenue Dogged by Search Costs

Microsoft's fiscal fourth-quarter and 2008 year-end financial results were announced in a Webcast on Thursday.

Q&A: Fausto Ibarra Takes SQL Server Reins

New director of product management talks up database and hints at future technologies.

Oracle Releases Critical Updates

Oracle has released the latest quarterly round of critical patches for all its products.

Embarcadero Releases SQL Optimizer

In its first product release since acquiring Borland's CodeGear business, Embarcadero Technologies Inc. this week released a new tool set designed to help developers optimize SQL code in databases.

SharePoint Development Takes Center Stage

CIOs, enterprise architects praise Microsoft's SharePoint Server at Burton Group's Catalyst Conference North America 2008.

Data Driver

Microsoft's Michael Pizzo talks up Entity Framework.

Sentrigo Offers Help for Database Patching Woes

Sentrigo Inc. released its new Hedgehog vPatch database security software product on Tuesday.

Developers Can Fight Back

Three new tools let programmers examine application code for SQL-injection vulnerabilities.

Microsoft Says SQL Server 2008 To Ship This Quarter

Redmond divulges tidbits of SQL Server 2008 release information at this week's Worldwide Partner Conference.

Greene Out at VMware

In a move that sent shock waves across the virtualization market, VMware's board of directors announced that Diane Greene, the company's co-founder, president and CEO, will be replaced by Paul Maritz, a 14-year veteran of Microsoft and head of EMC's Cloud Division.

.NET Developers Gain Velocity

Microsoft's surprise launch of its in-memory data caching platform could bolster data-driven app development.

Distributed Cache for .NET

Microsoft adds velocity to data-driven apps.

Acrobat Brings Developers into the Cloud

Adobe launches Acrobat.com, a free Web-based productivity and collaboration tools bundle.

Test-Drive SQL Server Data Services

Microsoft readies its new "cloud database" by hosting beta versions of REST and SOAP protocols for performing CRUD operations on clustered, customized SQL Server 2008 instances. These instances are organized as massively scalable, super-reliable, highly available Web services.

Sybase Adds LINQ and Entity Framework Support

iAnywhere Solutions Inc. opens beta program for its SQL Anywhere 11 embedded and mobile database-management system.

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