When it comes to availability vs. recovery, the most important question to ask is what are your recovery time objectives (RTO)? What is the amount of time your application can afford to be down? If the applications have strict requirements, then you want an availability solution. Disas...

Let’s be clear on this one: Microsoft isn’t partnering with Yahoo. It’s devouring it. It’s gobbling it up whole like a party snack before moving onto its next conquest. The argument, of course, is that not having to fund search will save Yahoo “hundreds of millions of dollars.” Well...

Loose coupling presents architectural challenges that are at the heart of planning and implementing the SOA infrastructure. Building the Service abstraction presents a simplified representation to the business but requires additional efforts under the covers to make that abstraction a ...

I’ve written a good bit here about the various ways Microsoft and Citrix overlap in the hypervisor space, ranging from topics like shared code base through competition for the desktop space. To me, these two players have always been the underdogs battling for the right to go head-to-he...

Mini-MSFT is back, with a post about Microsoft turning The Corner. It’s interesting to contrast his point of view with that of MG Siegler over at ParisLemon. Given my own perception of Valley bias on the part of Siegler (he is one of the new voices of Techcrunch after all), it’s grea...

Last week was a big traffic week for me.  I had a trifecta of posts that happened to pull in a bunch of traffic, which turned me into a stats addict.  In looking at the log files, I wanted to see where the search traffic was coming from and the associated search terms.  There was [...]...

I keep finding myself standing in front of the mirror and no matter how hard I concentrate I cannot seem to split my atoms and create a clone of myself. While this is an extreme thought, it seems to be a fairly common thread when I am out in the field meeting with SharePoint administra...

BEA, Cognos, and Informatica have all been named yesterday by a Credit Suisse analyst Jason Maynard as possible acquisition targets in the wake of the SAP acquisition of Business Objects. In a note released to Credit Suisse clients yesterday, Maynard reportedly said: 'The SAP/Microsoft...

One of my favorite bloggers, Paul Graham, has published an essay called 'Microsoft is dead '. He starts, 'A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead', and then explains why he thinks so. I do not think Microsoft is dead, but...

According to our worldwide network of software development activists, evangelists, and executives, 2006 promises to be a vintage year for software development...with IE7, Atlas, and AJAX featuring prominently.

'Each format of computer-based and ILT training has advantages and disadvantages,' writes AppDev CEO Craig Jensen. 'So when you combine them, you get the best overall learning possible. I fully expect that blended training solution trends will include the new knowledge server-based pro...

One of the most interesting facets of the 'Leaked Memo' incident last week is not so much what it reveals about Microsoft's Bill Gates, author of one of the two leaked memos, as what it tells us about the author of the second one: Ray Ozzie, the creator of Lotus Notes and Groove Networ...

New companies like salesforce.com and Google have 'real businesses that can challenge and win against the old guard companies,' said SalesForce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff this week in a public riposte to Gates's speech this week about the end of software and the switch to a serv...

A current look at the field of bioinformatics will reveal that it is a field that is largely dominated by the Linux operating system, as well as by programming languages such as Perl, Python, and Java. Windows and its associated native application development platforms are not in wides...

I just recently had the privilege of presenting a brief seminar on Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System (VSTO 2005) and wanted to take a moment to address your recent editorial. Although your complaints are somewhat justified when applied to VSTO 2003, the...

Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Microsoft are all licensees of the same patents that Kodak is successfully suing Sun Microsystems for infringing, the Eastman Kodak Co. revealed yesterday.

In late May 2004, Microsoft made the announcement that it was considering entering the High-Performance Computing (HPC) Market, a market that has traditionally been dominated by custom-engineered Unix-based machines. In recent years, advances in technology have made possible the constr...

A sampling of .NET Developer's Journal editorial board members and Microsoft Regional Directors offer their thoughts - with varying degrees of seriousness - on what the coming year will bring.

Microsoft is creating an advanced new generation of software that melds computing and communications in a revolutionary new way, offering every developer the tools they need to transform the Web and every other aspect of the computing experience.

Get ready, because soon the big knock will be at your door and your boss will be standing there with a single question for you: Should we go with .NET or J2EE for our Web services?