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IBM vs. Microsoft: Dukes Are Up Over Cloud Computing
In today’s high-tech world, companies rarely have it in them to wage full-on war against their competition, but any seasoned Web geek knows that’s simply because they’re too busy trying to outdo each other. Of course, this isn’t always so.
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SharePoint Designer 2007 Free to Download
There's been a little buzz in recent weeks about the possibility that SharePoint Designer 2007 -- Microsoft's reincarnation of FrontPage -- would become a free product. Well that buzz has been officially confirmed. As of April 1, 2009, SharePoint Designer 2007 can be downloaded for free. According to Microsoft
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A Development Platform for Collaborative Enterprise Applications
MindTouch (news,site ) is all about the enterprise. This open source collaboration platform is all over connecting enterprise applications, web services and Web 2.0 applications for teams to work together fulfilling business objectives. But MindTouch has decided it wants to go just a little bit farther.
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An Online Community Framework from a Cool Vendor
It's going to be an interesting Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco next week. Among the announcements, you can expect to hear from IGLOO Software. At the conference they will be unveiling their new framework for building community solutions. The new Online Community Platform has four primary components
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A New Platform for Standards-Based Search Applications
Information access software company Endeca Technologies has just announced the availability of its McKinley release Information Access Platform. The platform provides a new architecture for building standards-based search applications. After two years of research the new platform will allow for the rapid development and maintenance of search applications that
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Microsoft to Put Full Relational DB in the Cloud
SQL Data Services (SDS) has been on the radar since MIX08, when it was first announced as an online data storage and query processing service that could be accessed using the standard internet protocols. It has come a long way since then.
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ASP.NET MVC Web Development Tutorials
MIX09 is now over, but many of the sessions are still available to view. Of particular note are the ASP.NET MVC tutorials that will help you better understand this new development framework. Phil Haack, a Senior Program Manager with the ASP.
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OASIS Approves Open Standard for Unstructured Information Access
The majority of data on the web and elsewhere is unstructured, meaning that you cannot make assumptions that easily break the data down into components for processing. So what do you do when you need to process such information? OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (
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Extend SharePoint Using Visual Studio 2008
A new version of the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.3 has recently been released as a CTP (community technology preview).
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Web Platform Installer Offers New Web Content Management Systems
There was a lot of interesting news coming out of MIX09 yesterday. A new beta release for the Microsoft Web Platform Installer was one of them.
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Microsoft Courts Mobile Developers With Development Strategy
Microsoft's Windows Mobile has revealed its strategy to motivate mobile application developers to write applications on the Windows Mobile platform. Those interested in building and distributing mobile applications through the newly announced Windows Marketplace for Mobile (not yet created), can submit their proposals to Microsoft for inclusion later in
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Manage Your Amazon S3 Storage Using an Explorer View
Amazon Simple Storage Service, also called S3, (news,site) is a great service for those who desire a pay-as-you-go, hosted storage service for building web apps or storing files in the cloud. CloudBerry Lab, a software vendor, has released a freeware solution called CloudBerry S3 Explorer
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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC2 didn't stick around too long. ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is officially available for download. Not designed to be a replacement for ASP.NET Web Forms, the new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework is simply an alternative approach that also enables test-driven development.
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ASP.NET MVC RC2 Released
Getting ever so closer to the final release, Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of ASP.NET MVC is up for downloading. This new release candidate is all about the Installer and not so much about tooling or the runtime -- good news for those who have already invested serious learning time. [Editor's Note: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now available for download.]
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