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Microsoft's Oslo connections begin to bud: Microsoft took another step in unveiling its "Oslo" SOA strategy, with a sample application intended to not only demonstrate the vendor's interoperability as a SOA platform, and also show how it can automatically scale to meet the increased and unpredictable workloads SOA will bring to data centers. ...; Tags: Oslo, Microsoft BizTalk Server, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Application Servers, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-29
Microsoft declares its modeling love with a new language, 'D': A handful of Microsoft's top developers are working to create a new programming language, code-named "D," which will be at the heart of the Microsoft's push toward more intuitive software modeling. D is a key component of Microsoft's Oslo software-oriented architecture SOA technology and strategy. Microsoft outlined...; Tags: Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, D, Research & Development, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-02-05
Analyst: Microsoft Oslo part of 'tectonic shift' to business design: Microsoft may have been slow getting out the gate with an SOA strategy, but at least one analyst says that Microsoft's "Oslo" strategy represents more than a foray into SOA -- it represents a change in the way business interacts with IT. Microsoft announced Oslo last month,...; Tags: Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Business Metadata, Software Development, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Web Services, Research & Development, Application Servers, Strategy, Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Software/Web Development, Software, Business Operations, Management, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2007-12-10
LinderudCam (widget): This cam is located in Oslo, Norway, at a place called Linderud. It updates every 15 minutes, or by clicking on it.; Tags: Oslo, Norway; Software downloads 2007-04-18
University of Oslo Consolidates on an Oracle Enterprise Grid to Achieve 153% ROI in Five Years: In 2001, the university's maintenance costs soared as hardware used for its enterprise resource planning ERP applications neared the end of life. The Universities of Oslo, Bergen, and Trondheim each operated its own financial applications. By 2003, University of Oslo had deployed a single system for all three universities' Oracle...; Tags: Oslo, Oracle Corp., ROI, Infrastructure, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Roi/Tco, Financial Accounting, Databases, Middleware, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Data Management; Case studies

Local District in Oslo Improves the Delivery of Muncipal Services While Reducing Overall Operating Costs: The Bydel Gamle Oslo is located in Oslo, the capital of Norway. To better serve its citizens, the district government of Bydel Gamle Oslo decided to implement a state-of-the-art, converged voice and data infrastructure. They selected Nortel Networks for mission-critical reliability needed for the new Voice over IP VoIP solution....; Tags: Oslo, Nortel Networks Corp., Bydel Gamle Oslo, Telephony, VOIP, Government, Telecommunications, Networking, Network Technology; Case studies

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Photos: Where the building is the network: The San Jose, Calif., headquarters of Echelon, maker of technologies for smart buildings, model the company's energy management systems.Behind the scenes of "smart" buildings, including the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Sears Tower in Chicago, lies technology from Echelon. The company doesn''t call its embedded control technologies "green,"...; Tags: Network, Echelon, Photograph, Building, It', Echelon', That', Networking, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-14
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Does Microsoft have a gameplan for Groove?: Does Microsoft have a gameplan for Groove?Groove is cool but it lacks one important thingGroove is about synchronization of files on the client. They need to take it a bit further (maybe via "Mesh?") and synrhonize files to the client nodes (PC's, Servers, Phones) and to the Web. That way...; Tags: Groupware, Groove Networks Inc., gameplan; Discussion threads 2008-04-18
OOXML appeal possible, but looks unlikely: The International Organization for Standardization ISO has not received a formal appeal of its approval of Office Open XML as a standard, but it looks more unlikely with each day that passes. To date, there have been "no appeals and I have no way...; Tags: ISO, Office Open XML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-04-17
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Google App Engine: When will Microsoft field a competitor?: On April 7, Google took the wraps off of more than many had expected: Not just a hosted database platform, but an entire hosted Web app platform, known as Google App Engine. Google App Engine, which Google announced at its CampFire One developer event on April...; Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., RDBMS, BigTable, SimpleDB, SSDS, Databases, Web Services, Storage, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-04-07
Voice over SOA sounds promising -- will vendors deliver?: Can SOA add automation and intelligence to the way calls and other communications are routed throughout the enterprise? This may be the next great frontier for SOA -- and, at long last, a tangible benefit of architecture for the business. Digital communications, enhanced by SOA ...; Tags: Business Process, Voice, Communications Server, Server, SOA, Microsoft Corp., David Greenfield, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-03-16
Can Microsoft Mash SOA and UC?: The New York Times article about PopFly, Microsoft's mashup maker, got me thinking about how Microsoft will use mashups and SOA with unified communications UC. I asked Eric Swift, Microsoft's senior director of Unified Communications, as much two weeks ago when we met in Redmond First some background. There's...; Tags: Microsoft Office, Communications Server, Server, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Communications Server, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield; Blog posts 2008-02-11
Europe+tries+to+make+open+source+its+own: Europe+tries+to+make+open+source+its+ownYes, Europe is extremly troubling for Microsoft.The adoption rates for FireFox are some of the highest in the world. Since there are no software patents, MS IP threats are neutered there. They do NOT want to see a huge pocket of open source adoption."Euro-centric" public licenseI can see why that...; Tags: Sabayon Linux, open source, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-02-08
The evolution of the Tree of Life: The Tree of Life was an expression used by Charles Darwin to describe the diversity of organisms on Earth and their evolutionary history. There are only two life forms, eukaryotes, which gather their genetic material in a nucleus, and prokaryotes, such as bacteria, which have their genetic material floating freely...; Tags: Earth, Life, Researcher, Tree, Life Form, Wiki, Biotechnology, Online Communications, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-01-22
New torrent technology a serial industry killer: I got the annual notice from my cable company last week. Some channels in. Some channels out. And if it's something you really like you can bet it's now been pushed to a higher tier, at a higher price. They don't just play...; Tags: Telephony, Open Source, Industry, Miro, Telephony Monopoly, Cable, Network Technology, VOIP, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-01-14
Why the '8 things' tag meme is important: Now and again, someone will dream up a tag meme game. The idea is the writer says x-number of things and tags y-number of others to follow suit. Right now the 8 things you didn't know about me tag meme is doing the rounds and yes, I've been tagged on...; Tags: Workplace, Oracle Corp., Idea, Blog, Workforce, OraNA, Cyberthreats, Blogging, Spam, Games, Recruitment & Selection, Security, Internet, Spam And Phishing, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-01-11
Xbox Live - The Unbanning: Xbox Live - The UnbanningA wonderful day!I was one of the unfairly banned consoles, however to my surprise when I turned on my 360 last night, it connected to LIVE just fine! I didn't even have to call tech support or anything, they must have just done it on their...; Tags: Game players, console, Microsoft Xbox Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox; Discussion threads 2007-12-18
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