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BOSTON—Microsoft officials took another turn at explaining its Windows Live strategy, this time specifically to developers and IT professionals, on June 13, the second full day of the TechEd conference here. Perhaps it was the early morning (8:30 a.m.) time slot. Or maybe the fact that the Windows Live strategy session wasnt listed on the […]

/zimages/5/137952.jpgThe Scobleizer hasnt yet left the building. But he will be doing so soon. On June 10, word began to leak across the blogosphere that Robert Scoble, Windows technology evangelist and well-known Microsoft blogger, had decided to leave the Microsoft mother ship and join startup PodTech.Net. Scoble “swallowed the red pill” and joined Microsoft in […]

Palamida has been in the business of helping customers weed through their code as they adopt open-source solutions. Mark Tolliver, CEO of Palamida, a maker of intellectual property management and compliance products and services, spoke with eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft about his role at the company, the challenges of helping companies move to […]

Ingres, young and small as it is, is already picking fights with the big kids. The open-source DBMS vendor spun off from software maker CA in November 2005 and has never accounted for more than 0.5 percent of the market. But the company smells an opportunity as the market awakens to open-source alternatives to proprietary […]

If there was a central theme to the 11th Annual JavaOne Conference, held last month in San Francisco, it was arguably the restoration of balance between capability and complexity in the Java enterprise platform. Now called Java Enterprise Edition—rather than the former J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition)—the newly updated Java enterprise model includes input […]

The first “Star Wars” movie started with a chase scene in which Darth Vader was out to recover some stolen Death Star plans. Think of it as an effort to recover intellectual property. Today, a fleet of vendors offers data protection products to help IT departments prevent the loss of electronically stored trade secrets, confidential […]

Vontu 6.0 provides a flexible, policy-driven system that allows IT managers to find protected data and block its unauthorized release. Click here to read the full review of Vontu 6.0. 2 Vontu 6.0 provides a flexible, policy-driven system that allows IT managers to find protected data and block its unauthorized release. The Vontu 6.0 suite […]

Users dont buy operating systems for operating systems sake; they buy them for the applications that run on them. Given that truism, its not too early to wonder about the whereabouts of Microsoft Windows Vista-optimized apps. Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., will have showcase applications ready in time for the Vista launch, which is still set […]

Peter Coffees Epicenters column, “Act as if You Care About Security,” was one of the best—if not the best—articles I have read on the subject of protection of assets (May 29). His line, “If you dont protect your assets, the law may do no more,” is so very true. I was asked to perform a […]

BOSTON—Microsoft is making more of its gut Office and SharePoint technologies and services available to third-party application developers. Microsoft has been beating the developer drum for its SharePoint and Office technologies for months, if not years. But at the TechEd conference here, company officials crystallized some of the concepts theyve been evangelizing. /zimages/2/28571.gifGuru Jakob Nielsen […]

BOSTON—With WinFS, its next-generation file store technology that it has been working on since 2002, Microsoft admittedly bit off a tough challenge: to provide a single, integrated store for Windows, Office and SQL Server data. Now, the teams challenges are becoming even more complex, given that WinFS is going to need to manage data from […]