June 2003 - Posts
SearchWin2000.com interviews Stan Sorenson, director of product management for SQL Server, on the topic of migrating from SQL Server 2000 to Yukon.
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Here's an article that I recently wrote for .NET Magazine on the development of standards for Web services. The bottom line of the article is this- if you're considering the adoption of Web services in the enterprise, you have to be aware of what is going
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I recently wrote this article on hosting web service applications with Cassini for Hardcore Web Services (edited by Mike Gunderloy ). If you're interested in learning more about the internals of of a web server or are looking for a lightweight server
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Dare has posted a thoughtful endorsement of Echo . I'm in agreement that new standards to support weblogging should be constantly under review, and should work to build upon the limitations and shortcomings of the previous technologies. That's the nature
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The beta release status is "day to day" according to Stan Sorenson, director of product management for SQL Server. (Courtesy of InternetWeek ) Stan's a great guy, but he's the one who claimed that the beta would be released in time for TechEd. And at
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Thurrott writes that despite earlier claims from Microsoft, there will be a Longhorn Server product. I think Microsoft is making a mistake here in one respect- they should not be stating their plans for the Windows product line so early as they have over
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Fortune: Alas, Poor Microsoft ... You Used to Be So Interesting Here is a key quote from this article, "Microsoft's software is good enough... Longhorn might get geeks all sweaty with desire, but to the rest of us, it's still just an operating system."
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Neowin.net: Yukon beta in mid-July .
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OpenLink Software hosts a WWDC2003 Community Blog Space at http://wwdc2003.openlinksw.com/ . Check it out.
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According to this ZDNet article , Microsoft's goal is to commoditize the market for data mining tools with the upcoming Yukon release (presumably for the Windows platform). I think this may be a bit overstated, but Microsoft is definitely looking to provide
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Don outlines his XML "kernel" , but doesn't include XSLT, XPath, or XQuery. I don't have Don's depth of knowledge of the XML particulars, but I can't imagine being highly productive with XML without the support of XSLT or XPath, and XQuery looks very
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Thurrott speculates that Longhorn will include a subscription feature for automatic virus updates, and complains that the anti-virus feature should be free as are features like the Windows Media Player, etc.. It seems that Microsoft is trying to preserve
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No, I'm not referring to antiquated computing equipment. I'm referring to really cool househould appliances . At my house we have a few cats and a dog, so keeping things very tidy is a challenge. I want one of these, so if anyone has any experience with
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Tom's Hardware has an article about the WinFS file system. This is required reading for those interested in the coming advances in filesystem technologies in Windows.
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After no significant attention to this area for years, there is a much greater focus recently on filesystem technologies. Over at Slashdot, Hans Reiser of the ReiserFS project is being interviewed on his open source filesystem project . There are some
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Instead of working on reviving a failing business model or improving its core technology offerings, Sun has to resort to these tactics . Scott "My Name is FUD" McNealy is reported to have said "There's no question we're going to go after the AIX base
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For years now Google has owned internet searches. Except for a few radicals, everyone has embraced Google. A News.com article today talks about how Microsoft is making a move in the search arena. I'm pleased to see this, because I see Google getting complacent.
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Kingsley blogs on the upcoming Yukon features and compares them to OpenLink's Virtuoso product. While Yukon has many new features, the Virtuoso product does support many of the same features that Yukon is touting for developers. Since it is available
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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.
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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. This
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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
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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
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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
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This one is for all of you database geeks out there. (Courtesy of Tim Bray )
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 question
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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
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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.
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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 sounds
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http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?category=main&id=11534
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MIT economics professor Dan Ariely answers questions about economics and the technology spending behaviors of information technology executives.
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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 person
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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
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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.
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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, and
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