September 11, 2007 10:35 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Microsoft,
Open-source,
Sun
Tomorrow afternoon Sun and Microsoft will co-host a conference call to talk up hopefully some tangible new facet of their plan to make their respective operating systems and toolsets work well together.
September 11, 2007 8:03 PM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Microsoft,
Network and application security,
NewsThe conference is called Symantec Partner Engage, but CEO John Thompson took an hour after his keynote address in San Diego this morning to engage reporters in a roundtable discussion. And it didn't take long for the conversation to steer towards Microsoft's plans to compete in the security...
September 11, 2007 10:17 AM
Posted by: Bcournoyer
Enterprise applications,
Microsoft,
NewsThe latest version of Microsoft BizTalk Server is out this week (Monday), complete with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, more business-to-business functionality and built-in industry-specific support.
Those features will make BizTalk Server 2006 R2 easier for Microsoft partners to...
September 10, 2007 7:12 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Direct reseller channel conflict,
Enterprise applications,
Microsoft,
Software as a service (SaaS)
The next few weeks will be big for the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) category.
Salesforce.com is about to host its DreamForce event. NetSuite's IPO is on its way. SAP will unveil A1S on September 19 in New...
September 6, 2007 12:41 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Microsoft,
Software as a service (SaaS)
Today is Microsoft’s big company meeting at Safeco Field. The usual occupants, the Mariners, are off doing battle on the road--not too successfully—against the Yankees. But I digress.
September 5, 2007 9:39 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Linux,
Microsoft,
Open-sourceWhen Microsoft announced availability of its Silverlight 1.0 multimedia building block earlier today, the big news was that Novell would provide a Linux version of the tool.
In his
August 31, 2007 9:38 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Data storage management,
Microsoft,
Server virtualization
Microsoft’s acknowledgement this week that Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn) won’t
August 29, 2007 10:30 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Collaboration software,
Microsoft,
Server virtualization
Less than two months before it launches Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft is buying...
August 29, 2007 10:42 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Microsoft,
Network and application security,
Reseller blogs,
Server virtualizationFor partners who’ve been wondering, Microsoft says it will make Windows Vista SP 1 beta available within weeks to “a moderate sized audience."
The service pack will address reliability and performance issues, new hardware support and support for emerging...
