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Making sense of Microsoft's myriad database projects

Making sense of Microsoft's myriad database projectsSQL Server Katmai Adopts Orpaned Entity FrameworkLet's hope that adding the Entity Data Platform to SQL Server Katmai doesn't delay the ADO.NET Entity Framework/Entity Data Model/EDM Designer past 2008H1.--rjIt all sounds like a lot of vapourware to me...... all this cr*p about "The cloud"...

Tags: Databases, Programming languages, .NET, LINQ, SQL, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, developer, MySQL, database, SQL Server Katmai

Discussion threads 2007-05-10

Microsoft makes it official: SQL Server 'Katmai' due in 2008

Microsoft makes it official: SQL Server 'Katmai' due in 2008Visual Studio Orcas and SQL Server KatmaiI'd like to try SQL Server Katmai out when Microsoft releases as a public beta -- sometime around 4Q 2007. I think it would go well with Visual Studio Orcas.too quick....We have not upgraded any...

Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, server, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Katmai, Visual Studio Orcas, too-quick, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-05-09

Additional Resources

DDoS + Web 2.0 == Buckets o' traffic

Denial of Service attacks are based upon a simple idea: generate the maximum amount of traffic using the minimum amount of work. At one time this was as simple as sending a spoofed ICMP echo packet to a broadcast address or similar shenanigans. Modern DDoS attacks rely upon...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Network, Distributed Denial Of Service, Social Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Yes, we know it's a problem. No, we have no budget.

A survey by data center infrastructure company Voltaire indicates that while a vast majority of data center professionals believe that running a green data center will become a mission-critical agenda item, they haven't set aside the money to support it. Close to 90 percent of the executives...

Tags: CIO, Data Center, Voltaire Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea

Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...

Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight

Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlightis Flash chopped liver?I don't get it... Flash is ubiquitous.. it's on almost every PC out there and has a huge developer base behind it, yet these people are implying Silverlight is THE platform to beat. What does Silverlight have that Flash doesn't (besides a...

Tags: Scripting languages, Adobe RIA, SWF, Chrome, WebKit RiA, Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, WebKit, Microsoft Office, SVG, Adobe Systems Inc., developer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Live Event on Sept. 5th: Dell EqualLogic & VMware Infrastructure 3 Product Demonstration

Join Dell, and Dell Inc. Product Marketing Consultant William Urban, for a one-hour live presentation and product demonstration of a virtualized server and storage infrastructure based on VMware ESX Server 3.0 and the PS Series family of intelligent, iSCSI-based storage solutions. Register now for this event on Friday, September...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, VMware Inc., Storage, Ip storage, Hardware

Webcasts 2008-09-05

Exchange Log Analyzer (exe)

Exchange Log Analyzer ELA is a high performance tool for analyzing, charting and reporting on the message tracking logs that are generated by Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, Exchange Log Analyzer, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2008-09-05

Proxy/ISA Log Analyzer (exe)

Proxy/ISA Log Analyzer is a high performance log analyzer that allows you to analyze and quickly generate useful reports on Internet connection usage based on data from logs created by Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 or Microsoft ISA Server log files. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Microsoft Proxy Server, Microsoft Corp., Proxy/ISA Log Analyzer, Internet, Leadership, Management

Software downloads 2008-09-05

Web Editor (zip)

You can easily manage your projects. A lot of management tools are included in one software: file comparer, ftp upload/download even ftp file comparer. Light weight gif animator helps you create simple animations. Application can work with ASP, PHP, HTML, CSS, Java/VB script, JSP, XML, Openlaszlo, and Python file formates....

Tags: Web, HTML, FTP, CodeService, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2008-09-05

Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet

The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...

Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Desktop, Qumranet, Open Source KVM, Virtualization, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Microsoft finally earns a passing grade (barely) for WGA

Microsoft launched its Windows Genuine Advantage WGA anti-piracy program in early summer 2006. Its first year was, to put it charitably, a disaster. An epic fail. A big fat F on the year's report card. Things didn't get much better in 2007, either, as a server failure and other outages...

Tags: Report, Activation, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows Vista, Product Key, Microsoft Corp., Forum, Product ID Number, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list

Microsoft today announced plans to ship four security bulletins next Tuesday (September 9, 2008) to cover worm holes affecting Windows users. All four bulletins in September's Patch Tuesday will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating.  A "critical" rating is used to rate a vulnerability that can...

Tags: Windows Media, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Are we "done" with rich Internet applications?

This week I've been putting together slides and preparing for my talk at Web 2.0 Expo New York City. I'm doing one titled "Making Sense of Rich Internet Applications" so it's more of a general talk covering everything from Adobe's stuff, to Microsoft Silverlight, to the mobile world, and now...

Tags: Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-09-04

The power of standard protocols

The power of standard protocolsWhile I'm not an expert in IM protocols......I do agree with the basic philosophy (but you'd be surprised if I didn't). On the whole, compatibility is a good thing, even in the computer industry (where incompatibility has been seen as a competitive advantage for as...

Tags: Instant messaging, IM, standard protocol, software

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

How important is boot performance?

How important is boot performance?Boot performance is very importantA computer should only take as long to get to working state as a television - 10 seconds tops - with either the option of restoring the exact shutdown state or a fresh rebooted OS.Moderate importance overallBootup speed is not really a...

Tags: Performance management, PRODUCTIVITY, Patches, Operating systems, boot time, performance, computer, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbook

My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbookTotally different machines.A netbook is a full laptop. Yes, the industry is trying to keep the impression that it is only for casual use, etc, but there is little only constrained by ram these netbooks can't do (well, with Linux). ...

Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, UNIX, Operating systems, laptop computer, keyboard, netbook, Linux, ASUS, Linux laptop

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

IE8's "best" feature broken: stick with Firefox

IE8's "best" feature broken: stick with FirefoxIE8 BetaIE8 is in Beta, it is not the finished product. There will be issues adn problems. I am currently using it as well, and the problems I do have, I have let Microsoft know. It is a work in progress.That's...

Tags: Web browsers, IE8, beta, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Analyst: Google Chrome 'SOA ready'

There's been plenty of excellent commentary about Google's new Chrome browser provided by my colleagues here in the ZDNet community, so I'm not going to go into any nitty-gritty here. But to look at it from an enterprise perspective, Chrome may help lay the groundwork for a...

Tags: Google Inc., Client-server, SOA, Web Browser, Computing, Dave Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Web Browsers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Ten key differences between Linux and Windows

Ten key differences between Linux and WindowsRe: Shouldn't this be titledNot everything; for example 1) hardware support - not all closed source OS has the same level of hardware support. 2) Command line vs no command line : Many closed source OS has fully functional command line support.3) Multilayered run...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Windows, hardware

Discussion threads 2008-09-04