May, 2009

When I speak to an audience about Microsoft's partnership with Novell, I often frame the discussion around two themes: customer centricity and IP bridge building . The former deals with the fact that vendors should proactively work together to solve interoperability...

Just a few days ago, I wrote about the native ODF support in Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 . I use it everyday with my Novell colleagues and it makes our work go very smoothly (yes, they translate our docs sometimes, too!) At any rate, I was pleased to see...

I'm reading this over the weekend and wanted to pass it along. Sun and Microsoft have released a white paper outlining how they are incorporating the SAML federation standard in their respective access management solutions. For more on SAML click here...

Check it out - http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/05/13/announcing-php-sdk-for-windows-azure-and-much-more.aspx

Upcoming eSeminar from Ziff Davis featuring Microsoft and Novell. Register here - http://www.eseminarslive.com/c/a/Virtualization/Microsoft052709/

...I actually got to share this with a customer last week. I attended a CIO Forum and was asked about compatibility between Microsoft Office and Open Office - his IT staff needed to share work-related files with a partner who used OO. He was pleasantly...

I just pulled down the cumulative update for the SQL Server Driver for PHP (April 09 edition) . For those of you who read my walk through for PHP connectivity to SQL Server 2005 , the driver also supports SQL Server 2008. All steps are the same as my...