Randy Holloway at Microsoft

Thurrott makes a "guess" that Yukon will ship with Longhorn in 2006. I don't think he understands what Yukon is if he really believes that. Yukon is the next version of SQL Server, not the Starship Enterprise. It has been "demoware" for a long time now...

This item escaped my attention recently, but I hadn't heard much about it in the blogging world so I thought it would be good to share.  As referenced on the Mono site , this effort "turn[s] Wine into a library that can be used dynamically from Mono....

Although they aren't very sexy, reporting and business intelligence are core business functions. IT-Director.com has an article on Yukon's BI capabilities, and speculates that Microsoft's efforts here will make a huge impact on this market ( Flessner...

Not much news here , just some more information on the Yukon delays due to integration with Visual Studio (Whidbey). But there is one disturbing quote from Paul Flessner in the article. "If [Yukon is] not ready at the end of 2004, we'll ship it when it...

Scoble writes about Chris Brumme's weblog , which is hands down the  most technical .NET weblog (or Microsoft weblog, period) that is out there right now. If there is one that is comparable, please enlighten me. I like Brumme's site a lot, I have learned...

This one is for all of you database geeks out there.  (Courtesy of Tim Bray )

Joi Ito comments on the potential for Google to filter weblogs from search results, and makes a great point.  Isn't the filtering of weblogs just a work around for an inflexible and/or poorly conceived page ranking algorithm?  If the page ranking algorithm...

Brad Wilson has a great blog entry on employee reviews , and makes the case that they are not useful.  I tend to agree, but in larger organizations they are more important from a human resources perspective.  I suspect that there are better ways to document...

To clarify my comments on Linux, I'm not impugning the quality of the Linux operating system or the software running on Linux.  My comments were on the overall viability of the platform for desktop computing, based on the amount of resources supporting...

Giga Research says that you should rule out Linux on the desktop until 2005 .  From what I've seen I think you should rule it out for the forseeable future.  There is no evidence that Linux is gaining any serious "mind share" or market share in desktop...

Here is a great article  on the dearth of systems support for SOA billing, tracking, and reporting.  For companies looking to leverage Web services (or similar architectures) as a delivery mechanism for software and services, this will be an important...

Joel has a great piece on what's wrong with venture capital and why it may not be a good idea for software startups.  I agree with his analysis and would add this comment.  When considering VC, it should be need based.  To state the obvious, any company...

Scoble provides a list of possible scenarios for computing while standing up.  I'd love to be able to use a Tablet when I give a talk on a technical issue.  If it is for a small group, I'd love to be able to walk around and show people what's on screen...

Thanks to Andres Aguiar and his second post  on DB2's upcoming support for .NET, specifically stored procedure mappings to CLR code.  It doesn't sound like there is a lot to it, but it should be a useful feature.  The language specification part of it...

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MIT economics professor Dan Ariely  answers questions about economics and the technology spending behaviors of information technology executives.

Microsoft is citing customer concerns about product stability and internal dependencies on Whidbey as the primary drivers for the project delays in the Yukon release.  The software is now projected to release in the second half of 2004.  I'm the last...

Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig writes about the Public Domain Enhancement Act .  Personally, I think this a great proposal and urge everyone to support it.  It does not place an undue burden on copyright holders, and it could greatly enhance the...

Udell comments  on object database concepts, JDO "hacks", and makes a case for AOP.  The JDO implementation is disturbing, it seems like higher-level programming models are required for object databases to flourish.

Kingsley Idehen, CEO of OpenLink Software (and InfoWorld Innovator award winner ),  corrected me .  Apparently he does have a blog !  I'm subscribing and so should you, this guy has a great understanding of database technologies, unified data access,...

InternetWeek has an article  previewing the enterprise server news coming up at TechEd in early June.  No big surprises here- the next iteration of Exchange is coming, a new product initiative includes updates to Biztalk features, and of course Yukon...

I recently wrote an article on the use of Mono's CLI implementation in enterprise software integration products for .NET Magazine .  I got some great comments from Miguel de Icaza and OpenLink Software's CEO, Kingsley Idehen (he needs a blog!).  These...

Thurrott has some  interesting things to say (second item) about Microsoft's plans for IE.  What say you, Mr. Scoble ?

This may be old news to some, but I just ran across Salman's blog over at SQLBlogs.com, and this is a welcome addition to the community.  I anticipate this to be a very valuable resource over the next few months.  Subscribed !

In anticipation of the upcoming Yukon beta, Mary Jo and I talked recently about what the release will mean for developers.