December 2004 - Posts

3 Cheers for Bush
06 December 04 12:28 PM | jvast | 2 Comments   

Wether you love or hate him, you have to be glad about him signing the bill to extend the ban on taxation on Internet access in the US. You can read a short write-up of the article here . Read More...

Belated announcement of CTP2 of Yukon and SQL Express Manager
06 December 04 12:18 PM | jvast | 0 Comments   

I was on holiday Thursday and Friday of last week, so I missed announcing the latest Community Technical Preview of SQL Server 2005 which can be found here . CTP releases are not as well tested as beta release, but they have the latest coolest mostly Read More...

Is Solaris really the underdog?
01 December 04 10:26 AM | jvast | 3 Comments   

So from a lot of recent blogs and according to Open Source news sites like OSNews , the release of X86 Solaris as Open Source has Solaris about 4 years behind Linux. I'm trying hard not to laugh outright, but giggles are still escaping me.... Now, I should Read More...