Monthly Archives: July 2007
Microsoft Swims in New Channel
DENVER—While Office has always had a big reseller channel, Microsoft recognized that it needed to add a different kind of partner in its ecosystem...
Microsoft Does Developers Like Nobodys Business
At its Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft has launched and enhanced a series of initiatives to help ISVs (independent software vendors) do more with Microsoft...
Microsoft Pours $50M into Forefront Security Line
Microsoft is spending another $50 million to pump up sales, marketing, training and other support for its Forefront line of security products, the company...
Oracle Expects Database 11g to Set the Database Bar
Database market leader Oracle unveiled its latest database version, Oracle Database 11g, July 11, and company officials anointed it the next king of the...
Oracle: Does the Emperor Have Any Clothes?
Oracle may command 47 percent of the database market, but the company is pushing headlong into a saturated market with little room for growth,...
Dell Accused of False Advertising in the UK
A United Kingdom advertising standards group has accused Texas-based Dell of false advertising, and stipulated that all printer vendors should include the cost of...
PayPal Formally Moves into Mobile Payments
The bandwidth, input and software limits of smart phones makes even the most basic mobile purchases difficult. PayPals market entry is a quintessential "more...
The Zero-Day Solution
Theres still no consensus regarding whether the zero-day vulnerability that security researcher Thor Larholm found is on Internet Explorer or on Firefox. But more...
Google helps burglars steal $12K
Two burgling n00bs who couldn't suss how to open a combination safe at a Colorado amusement center turned to Google for help.
"The burglary at...
WS 08, SQL Server 08 and Visual Studio Due Feb. 27
DENVER—Microsoft will release Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 together on Feb. 27, 2008 in what will be the companys...