LinkedIn, the business-centric social networking site, this week talked more about opening up its "platform" to select partners
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/12/2007
Volta toolset, used with Visual Studio 2008, promises easier deployment of apps beyond the .NET world.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/05/2007
It took longer than expected, but the latest CTP is now available, adding clear encryption, better reporting and geospatial support.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/01/2007
Microsoft’s Meijer wants to use LINQ to improve Web programming.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/01/2007
Tami Reller, a Microsoft Business Solutions veteran, has a new job as CFO of Microsoft's Platform & Services Division.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/29/2007
San Francisco-based GoldenGate Software is offering a new version of its database optimization and solution. Version 9.5 adds improvements to the company's Transactional Data Management solution. It's typically used by enterprises that want high-availability data or disaster assurance protection. The solution also lets users move data across different databases in real time, according to company literature.
As a freelancer, I've had to work with databases quite often. In my earlier years, I worked with Microsoft Access, creating Visual Basic for Applications forms to interact with my data tables and queries. As my needs matured, I moved on and embraced MySQL and the various front ends for it due to the increased versatility offered by such solutions. (For instance, MySQL supports cross-platform Web applications powered by PHP or similar languages.)
DShield inventor sits in the eye of the storm.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/15/2007
Responding to a soon-to-be released study revealing that as many as a half a million database servers aren't protected by firewalls, security experts contend the findings constitute a call to action for security pros and database administrators everywhere.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/14/2007
The next preview of SQL Server 2008 supports spatial data types and a new Resource Governor feature is slated to hit in a week or two.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/12/2007
XAware Inc. has released its latest data integration software under an open source GPLv2 license and also achieved Gold Partner status in the MySQL Enterprise Connection Alliance program.
Microsoft has unveiled a multi-year, multi-product initiative, code-named "Oslo," that reflects a number of its recent enterprise solution strategies.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/06/2007
Google's attempt to take a leading role in social networking has some pundits saying yet another Google vs. Microsoft battle scenario is playing out.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/06/2007
In announcing today that it will release to manufacturing Visual Studio 2008 this month, Microsoft is meeting the most optimistic forecasts for when the long anticipated upgrade to its flagship IDE would ship.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/05/2007
The ongoing file format battle between proponents of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) took a surprising turn lthis week, when a key ODF proponent announced that it intended to abandon the ISO-approved specification.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/02/2007